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Books by Brooks Haxton
  | | Fading Hearts on the River(Reprint) A Life in High-Stakes Poker by Brooks Haxton Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-544-8, ISBN: 1-61902-544-2 "Centered around multi-million dollar stakes and a series of nationally televised poker tournaments, Fading Hearts on the River offers a story of oddsthe odds of a newborn surviving severe jaundice, the odds of Congress passing a law that renders one’s online gambling income inaccessible, the odds of drawing the right card on the turn or the river. In this tale of fatherhood and worldy success, Haxton follows his son Isaac’s unlikely ca ..." |
 | | My Blue Piano Bilingual Edition (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) by Else Lasker-Schüler, Brooks Haxton Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2015 by Syrcause University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-1056-4, ISBN: 0-8156-1056-4 "Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family. Following the death of her parents and the dissolution of her marriage, the fledgling poet became notorious in the fashionable cafés of Berlin for appearing in costume as a Persian girl or as an Egyptian boy. Her flamboyance was echoed in her poetry, which combined the sexual with the religious in its exploration of the ecstatic experience. Critics have long ..." |
 | | Fragments by Brooks Haxton, James Hillman, Brooks Haxton Heraclitus Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by Penguin Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-243765-0, ISBN: 0-14-243765-4 "Fragments of wisdom from the ancient worldIn the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein-Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been lost to history-but its surviving fragments have for thou ..." |
 | | Selected Poems by Victor Hugo, Brooks Haxton Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2002 by Penguin Classics ISBN-13: 978-0-14-243703-2, ISBN: 0-14-243703-4 "For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes the nineteenth century's most celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was know foremost as a poet-indeed the greatest French poet of the age. He wrote with passion about history, erotic experience, familial love, philosophy, nature, social justice, art, and mysticism. In this new bicentennial ..." |
 | | Fading Hearts on the River A Life in High-Stakes Poker by Brooks Haxton, Bruce Haxton Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-325-3, ISBN: 1-61902-325-3 "Centered around multi-million dollar stakes and a series of nationally televised poker tournaments, "Fading Hearts on the River" offers a story of odds--the odds of a newborn surviving severe jaundice, the odds of Congress passing a law that renders one's online gambling income inaccessible, the odds of drawing the right card on the turn or the river. In this tale of fatherhood and worldy success, Haxton follows his son Isaac's unlikely ..." |
 | | Last Poems(1st Edition) by Hayden Carruth, Stephen Dobyns, Brooks Haxton Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-381-9, ISBN: 1-55659-381-3 "Praise for Hayden Carruth: "Something Hayden Carruth does as well as any writer is to treat the reader as a friend, and to provide, through his poetry, hours of good company."--"The New York Times Book Review""One of the lasting literary signatures of our time."--"Library Journal," starred review"Carruth, like Whitman, like Chaucer, is large--he contains multitudes. Dip into his work anywhere, and there is life--and death--as stirringly ..." |
 | | They Lift Their Wings to Cry(1st Edition) by Brooks Haxton Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26845-7, ISBN: 0-307-26845-4 "Brooks Haxton’s poetry has celebrated for thirty years our troubled pleasures in the daily world. This new collection, titled after a meditation on the cry of the snowy tree cricket, gives us his most moving response to the ferocious beauty of nature and to the folly and magnificence of human undertakings.In the opening poem, the poet comes home drunk without his key, collapses in the yard, and looks up to where, he says: Whorls of a ma ..." |
 | | Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero(1st Edition) Poems by Brooks Haxton Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2001 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41248-6, ISBN: 0-375-41248-4 "The critically acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton embraces life, from our naked beginnings to the first signs of middle age and beyond, in this inviting collection of poems. The book opens with the dramatic birth of twins, and speaks in the intimate voice of a husband, father, and poet. Diverse products of the imagination pass through Haxton’s generous mind—the mysterious number zero, Milton’s “Lycidas,” nuclear technology—even ..." |
 | | The Sun at Night(Reprint) Poems by Brooks Haxton Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1997 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76596-7, ISBN: 0-679-76596-4 "Presents a new, intensely personal anthology of poetry that explores the rich complexities of language and the tender and powerful moments of everyday life. Reprint." |
 | | TRAVELING COMPANY(1st Edition) by Brooks Haxton Paperback, 81 Pages, Published 1989 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-72284-7, ISBN: 0-679-72284-X "Praise for Brooks Haxton's 'Traveling Company': "The poems in Brooks Haxton's 'Traveling Company' are extraordinary. I value their beauty and their strength, one by one, and their accumulating power to move their reader's own responding imagination. It is a pleasure to recommend this fine book?' - Eudora Welty "Brooks Haxton writes with a combination of sceptical intelligence and emotional bravura that's unique. 'Traveling Company' is a ..." |
 | | Dead Reckoning by Brooks Haxton Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 1989 by Story Line Press ISBN-13: 978-0-934257-25-1, ISBN: 0-934257-25-6 "Book by Haxton, Brooks" |
 | | DOMINION(1st Edition) (Knopf Poetry) by Brooks Haxton Paperback, 107 Pages, Published 1986 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-74295-3, ISBN: 0-394-74295-8 "Poems deal with animals, justice, school, childhood, anger, racial intolerance, war, death, memory, fear, music, and nature" |
 | | My Blue Piano Bilingual Edition (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art) by Else Lasker-Schüler, Brooks Haxton Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2015 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-3420-1, ISBN: 0-8156-3420-X "Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family. Following the death of her parents and the dissolution of her marriage, the fledgling poet became notorious in the fashionable cafés of Berlin for appearing in costume as a Persian girl or as an Egyptian boy. Her flamboyance was echoed in her poetry, which combined the sexual with the religious in its exploration of the ecstatic experience. Critics have long ..." |
 | | Uproar(1st Edition) Antiphonies to Psalms by Brooks Haxton Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2004 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4073-5, ISBN: 1-4000-4073-6 "In this book of homemade psalms, Brooks Haxton brings the poetry of the original psalmists, their awe and their music, into our world of jet planes and space travel, automatic rifles and suburban pleasures. As he writes in his preface, “I take psalms less as doctrine than as outcries, and I cry back in these poems from whatever vantage I can find.” The result is lucid, touching verse that connects the exalted language of scripture with ..." |
 | | The Sun at Night(1st Edition) by Brooks Haxton Hardcover, 76 Pages, Published 1995 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-44179-3, ISBN: 0-679-44179-4 "Presents a new, intensely personal anthology of poetry that explores the rich complexities of language and the tender and powerful moments of everyday life. Reprint." |
 | | Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero(1st Edition) Poems by Brooks Haxton Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2003 by Random House Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70956-2, ISBN: 0-375-70956-8 "Very clean and tight copy. Size: 6" x 9". No marks. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's signature in ink. All edges are clean. Not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Poetry; ISBN: 0375709568. ISBN/EAN: 9780375709562. Inventory No: 025740." |
 | | DOMINION(1st Edition) by Brooks Haxton Hardcover, 107 Pages, Published 1986 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-55062-6, ISBN: 0-394-55062-5 |
 | | Traveling Company(1st Edition) by Brooks Haxton Hardcover, 81 Pages, Published 1989 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-57788-3, ISBN: 0-394-57788-4 "Poems deal with birth, childhood, illness, love, family, faith and death" |
 | | The lay of Eleanor and Irene(1st Edition) by Brooks Haxton Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1985 by Countryman Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88150-039-4, ISBN: 0-88150-039-9 |
 | | Fragments The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus by Brooks Haxton, James Hillman, Of Ephesus. Heraclitus, Helen Fielding Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2001 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-89195-5, ISBN: 0-670-89195-9 ""Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London, as well as with herhotshot, unevolved TV presenter boyfriend, Rosie Richardson chucks the glitz and ..." |
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