Overview :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 ... Read More
Overview :Literary Nonfiction. Religion. First we have to talk about the elephant in the room--though that might not be the most polite term for Jesus... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :Sermons and commentaries and devotional writings all attest to the importance of keeping fresh perspective on even timeless teachings. Teach... Read More
Overview :"Untroubled authority . . . and the talent to make us weep."--Dan Chiasson, "Poetry""He has written the most important poetic sequences publ... Read More
Overview :Ley lines mark alignments of sacred sites such as ridgetops and ancient megaliths and create pathways between them. This book too marks alig... Read More
Overview :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 h... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :Against the busy background of the "information age" and the "anthropocene," where's poetry? It might seem invisible, irrelevant, but Demons... Read More
Overview :American Anger applies psychological and philosophical anger theories to the choler of American life. These genre-bending poems speak to the... Read More
Overview :"Hix has written the most important poetic sequences published by an American poet during the last several decades. He is the most interesti... Read More
Overview :The intelligent, eloquent, and luminous poems in H L Hix' third full-length collection, exceed the amazing promise and scope of his earlier ... Read More
Overview :." . . 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 pe... Read More
Overview :This is the story of not just survival, but about the author's capacity to overcome years of severe torture under Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. Th... Read More