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  | | Rain Inscription by H. L. Hix Paperback, 141 Pages, Published 2017 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9977455-0-4, ISBN: 0-9977455-0-9 "H. L. Hix's Rain Inscription gives vivid testimony to the paradox that human making is both lasting and fleeting. Its three sections (a sonnet-sequence Q&A with contemporary cultural studies, a renewal of the sayings of Herakleitos and Jesus, and a group of dialogues with contemporary artists) extend an already capacious dialogue beyond its prior limits.H. L. Hix has published twelve books with Etruscan, including Chromatic (2006), a fi ..." |
 | | American Anger An Evidentiary by H. L. Hix Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 2016 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9897532-4-1, ISBN: 0-9897532-4-7 "American Anger applies psychological and philosophical anger theories to the choler of American life. These genre-bending poems speak to the demographics that engage the Occupy movement, recognizing anger as the primary condition of the American empire." |
 | | I'm here to learn to dream in your language by H. L. Hix Paperback, 103 Pages, Published 2015 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9897532-0-3, ISBN: 0-9897532-0-4 "In lyric sequences that record a lover's dreams and a dreamer's loves, I'm here to learn to dream in your language extends H. L. Hix's ongoing poetic inquiry into spiritual and sexual ecstasy.That house that season was inhabited,though I was not. That house that year was not haunted, but I was.The creek tendered cattails, pebbles, turtles.The cattails issued redwings and also lent their raspy voiceto the breeze the blackbirds animated.H ..." |
 | | Incident Light (Paperback) by H. L. Hix Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2009 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9745995-1-9, ISBN: 0-9745995-1-4 "Poems inspired by the life of artist Petra Soesemann, who discovered only in adulthood that her biological father was a Turk, and not the now-deceased German who helped raise her and whom she loved and had always considered her father." |
 | | CounterClaims (Scholarly) by H. L. Hix, Harvey Hix Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2019 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62897-331-0, ISBN: 1-62897-331-5 "". . . this project seeks not to take a position on, but to further an ongoing process of, poetics. It seeks not to assert a claim but to perform a heuristic, not to settle on one aesthetic or one institutional arrangement for poetry, but to fulfill a principle of continuing dialogue and distributed engagement." In Counterclaims, renowned poet H. L. Hix has amassed the responses of more than one hundred and fifty of his fellow writers, ..." |
 | | Demonstrategy Poetry, For and Against by H. L. Hix Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 2019 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9997534-1-5, ISBN: 0-9997534-1-X "Against the busy background of the “information age” and the “anthropocene,” where’s poetry? It might seem invisible, irrelevant, but Demonstrategy proves it as salient as ever, and more urgent. In paired essays about poetry in the world and the world in poetry, Demonstrategy finds poetry’s pulse steady and strong." |
 | | Legible Heavens(1st Edition) by H. L. Hix Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2008 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9797450-4-1, ISBN: 0-9797450-4-7 "“Untroubled authority . . . and the talent to make us weep.”—Dan Chiasson, Poetry“He has written the most important poetic sequences published by an American poet during the last several decades. He is the most interesting American poet writing today, the least predictable and the most challenging.”—David Caplan, PleiadesLegible Heavens explores what the most intimate forms of experience reveal about our most cosmic concerns. Its four s ..." |
 | | Chromatic(1st Edition) by H.L. Hix Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2006 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9745995-6-4, ISBN: 0-9745995-6-5 "H.L. Hix’s newest poetry book, Chromatic, bears as its epigraph the philosopher Baruch de Spinoza’s assertion that “desire is the very nature or essence of every single individual.” The three sequences of poems in Chromatic test that claim. Each has a borrowed title: “Remarks on Color” from Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Eighteen Maniacs” from Duke Ellington, and “The Well-Tempered Clavier” from J.S. Bach. Exploiting those predecessors, the poem ..." |
 | | Perfect Hell(1st Edition) by H. L. Hix Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1996 by Gibbs Smith ISBN-13: 978-0-87905-780-0, ISBN: 0-87905-780-7 "Book by Hix, H. L." |
 | | Wild and Whirling Words(1st Edition) A Poetic Conversation by H. L. Hix Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 2004 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9745995-0-2, ISBN: 0-9745995-0-6 "What would poets say about each other’s poems if they were really honest? The answer is in Wild and Whirling Words. Thirty-three of America’s best and most important poets, diverse in gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, geography, political disposition, and aesthetic commitments, took the challenge. Each volunteered one of her or his own poems, which the moderator then circulated anonymously among the other poets, who themselves resp ..." |
 | | City of Ash(1st Edition) (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Eugenijus Alisanka, H. L. Hix Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 2000 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-1784-6, ISBN: 0-8101-1784-3 "Although the title of this sensitive collection refers to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, City of Ash serves as a universal geography of the contemporary soul in an urban context. Through his poetry, Eugenijus Alisanka searches for personal and historical meaning within the framework of time, recognizing both the demands of the self and the impossibility of avoiding what came before, whether human or cultural. " |
 | | God Bless by H. L. Hix Paperback, 174 Pages, Published 2007 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9745995-7-1, ISBN: 0-9745995-7-3 "In a sequence of poems at once playful and grave, National Book Award finalist H.L. Hix raises questions about religion and war, freedom and responsibility, power and justice, art and truth. Quoting George W. Bush and replicating arguments from Osama bin Laden, Hix chronicles the travesties of reason and myth behind 9/11 and the current Iraq quagmire.Hix then presents interviews with experts on the questions raised by the poems. Those i ..." |
 | | Shadows of Houses(1st Edition) by H. L. Hix Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2005 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9745995-4-0, ISBN: 0-9745995-4-9 "“Shadows of Houses, H.L. Hix’s new collection, is both vatic and precise. Patiently looking at and through the quotidian, Hix registers the tiny and immense phenomena of change and variation the seasons and hours bring. The remarkable sequence ‘the God of Window Screens and Honeysuckle’ is a compendium of outer and inner weather—a naturalist’s neighbor’s, philospher’s, and poet’s almanac, and a source of wisdom and beauty I shall regula ..." |
 | | Surely as Birds Fly (New Odyssey Series) by H. L. Hix, Harvey Hix Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2002 by Truman State Univ Press ISBN-13: 978-1-931112-05-5, ISBN: 1-931112-05-3 "The intelligent, eloquent, and luminous poems in H L Hix' third full-length collection, exceed the amazing promise and scope of his earlier collections of poems. In the three sequences that make up the book, Hix negotiates the cost of knowledge, eros, and dignity, the burden of lamentation and destiny, the mercurial border between matter and spirit. One will not only admire the lucidity of these poems, but will delight at how they weave ..." |
 | | As Much As, If Not More Than by H. L. Hix Paperback, 146 Pages, Published 2014 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9886922-1-3, ISBN: 0-9886922-1-X ""Hix has written the most important poetic sequences published by an American poet during the last several decades. He is the most interesting American poet writing today, the least predictable and most challenging."—David Caplan, author of PleiadesH. L. Hix's newest book is an intellectual venture, testing the boundary between poetry and prose. He draws on questions from other sources and employs ancient meter techniques to challenge ..." |
 | | Lines of Inquiry by H. L. Hix Paperback, 141 Pages, Published 2011 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9832944-0-5, ISBN: 0-9832944-0-2 ""One of the most distinctive writers of our time."—David Mason, The Hudson Review"The most interesting American poet writing today, the least predictable and most challenging."—David Caplan, PleiadesOur work (as writers) is not the pursuit of fame and fortune, not self-expression, not creativity, not therapy, not publication, unless and exactly insofar as those further rational discourse. Our work is to recognize and declare the equal s ..." |
 | | First Fire, Then Birds(1st Edition) Obsessionals 1985-2010 by H. L. Hix Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9819687-4-2, ISBN: 0-9819687-4-0 "-H. L. Hix is that rare poet who is equal parts historian, journalist, archivist, and singer.---Susan M. Schultz-Nobody now at work in American verse combines [H. L. Hix's] attraction to programmatic Big Projects (narrative, philosophical, or procedure driven) with his supple interest in older tones and forms.--- Stephen Burt, The BelieverFirst in The Huffington Post list of -The 17 Most Important Poetry Books of Fall 2010.--[H.L Hix is ..." |
 | | Constellation(First Edition) by H. L. Hix Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2023 by Cloudbank Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9849991-3-2, ISBN: 0-9849991-3-2 |
 | | As Easy As Lying Essays on Poetry by H. L. Hix Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Etruscan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9718228-3-2, ISBN: 0-9718228-3-2 "If you were stranded on some far slope of Parnassus and could bring only one book to map the landscape, H.L. Hix’s As Easy As Lying would be a good choice. Accessible, erudite, and ebullient, these essays delve into the workings of the poetic mind and offer incisive assessments of contemporary American poets and poetics. Hix not only maps the landscape, he reshapes it." |
 | | Rational Numbers(1st Edition) Poems (New Odyssey Series) by H. L. Hix Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2000 by Truman State Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-943549-79-8, ISBN: 0-943549-79-5 "In his second book of poetry and winner of the 2000 T. S. Eliot Prize, H. L. Hix uses two contrasting poetic sequences. "Orders of Magnitude" defies rationality in favor of invention in the musical sense: producing a short composition that works out a single idea. As in music, the whole composition achieves its irrational effect through rational formal structure, with 100 poems, each ten lines long, with ten syllables per line. In the s ..." |
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