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ISBN10: 0974599514
ISBN13: 9780974599519
Publisher: Etruscan Press
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780974599519
Publisher: Etruscan Press
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
'Nothing attested, everything sung.' And these poems are the songs, the mournful lieder of a reimagined life. H. L. Hix's melodies are pure; his harmonies are haunting and strange. Incident Light composes a soaring chorus from the dark and private notes of long-kept secrets.-- Alyson Hagy, author of Snow, Ashes
Any new book by this inventive poet is cause for excitement.--The Kansas City Star
Hix's eighth collection is a fine addition to this protean poet's fast-growing (and critically lauded) body of work. Like C.D. Wright, Hix works both with highly wrought descriptive passages and with verse that sounds like regular speech cutting swiftly between them.--Publishers Weekly, starred review
H. L. Hix's Incident Light explores a life that became instantly mythical after a startling revelation. The artist Petra Soesemann learned at age forty-nine that the dad who had raised her from birth was not her biological father. Her dad had died some years before; her father was still alive. Her dad, like her mother, was a blue-eyed German blond; her father was Turkish, with dark eyes and dark hair like Petra's own. Incident Light is a biography: not an ordered account of the facts of a life, but an invitation into the dad's devotion, the mother's passion, the father's honor, and especially into the daughter's own embracing of her experience, newly understood. Incident Light testifies to the many lives that converge on one life to lend it beauty and mystery.H. L. Hix teaches at the University of Wyoming. His Chromatic was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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