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The Death of H. L. Hix
They are separated by an ocean and by a century and a half, but in other ways Ivan Ilyich and H. L. Hix are not so far apart. Ivan Ilyich's former colleagues in the law courts of St. Petersburg go through the motions of mourning his death, keeping to themselves their relief that it was he, not themselves, who had died. So do H. L. Hix's former colleagues in the English Department of the University of Wyoming. Ivan Ilyich is hanging curtains when he bumps his kidney, sustaining the injury that eventually kills him. H. L. Hix is mowing the dandelions that have overgrown his gravel driveway when a kicked-up rock inflicts the injury to his kidney that eventually kills him. Ivan Ilyich wishes he ...
Perfect Hell
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Say It Into My Mouth
"'To say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, ' Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, adding: 'and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing at all.' In this book of seamless discrepancies H. L. Hix says a great deal, and none of it nonsensical. The conjunctions of SAY IT INTO MY MOUTH offer a poetics of the dialogue in which exchange and equivalence are conducted as philosophical propositions. From translation to philosophy, poetry to drama, the pre-Socratic to the post-Internet, Hix helps us see the two in networks." --Craig Dworkin
Legible Heavens
"Legible Heavens explores what the most intimate forms of experience reveal about our most cosmic concerns, and vice versa. Its four sequences act like compass points to orient a human landscape. On one axis, "Star Chart for the Rainy Season" laments love lost, appealing to the biblical assertion that "love is stronger than death, and passion more cruel," in contrast to "Material Implication," which celebrates love found, in sonnets of desire insistently "glowing against the dusk." On the other axis, "All the One-Eyed Boys in Town" treats love as perdition, the speaker imagining his life as "a match scratched down your wingbones," in contrast to "Synopsis," which treats love as salvation, reinscribing the biblical gospels (canonical and apocryphal alike) to "solicit a miracle I must not expect.""--BOOK JACKET.
Rain Inscription
Rain Inscription gives vivid testimony to the paradox that human making is both lasting and fleeting.
Lines of Inquiry
H. L. Hix's lines of inquiry ponder philosophic questions distilling answers with an insight intrinsic to a poetic heart.
Moral Tales
Polymath poet H. L. Hix responds to Plato and Marie de France with wry modern takes. Plato may have pestered poets out of his republic, but he peppered his dialogues plenty with poetry of his own: the mind as an aviary, the soul as contrary horses chafing their charioteer. Marie de France might be more famed for her Lais, but she could fetch a pretty funny fable. In MORAL TALES, H. L. Hix first treats (not "translates," quite) and then glosses a suite of each: flighty passages from Plato, earthy fables from Marie. Which makes the moral tales here tales you've heard before, but not the way you've heard them. "Across 'the disruptions of time and distance, ' the poet Eavan Boland wrote, writers...
God Bless
George Bush and Osama bin Laden in a poetic dialog embracing politics, literature, language, and culture.
Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes
This book explores the consequences of postmodern theory and answers the question, "What did postmodern theory begin?"
Chromatic
Some of the included poems were published previously.
