"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,Pleiades
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Since 1991 when Estonia became independent we have a fresh flowering of Estonian poetry combining traditional themes of the land the people, their trials and tribulations, and a modern note of the scars of t
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"H. L. Hix is that rare poet who is equal parts historian, journalist, archivist, and singer."Susan M. Schultz
From "Orders of Magnitude":
Songs surround us, but we hardly hear them.Jostling girls laugh in rapid Japanese.The neighbor' read more
Of Snow, of Soul offers a substantial selection from each of Jüri Talvet's three most recent poetry books, Kas sul viinamarju ka on? (Do You Also Have Grapes?, 2001), Unest, lumest (Of Dreams, of Snow, 2005) and Silmad peksavad une seinu (Eyes Bea read more
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, politi read more
“'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 read more
“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 seque read more
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 ration read more
"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 o read more
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