H. L. Hix'sRain Inscriptiongives 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. Hixhas published twelve books with Etruscan, includingChromatic(2006), a finalist for the National Book Award. Other awards include the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Peregrine Smith Award, and fellowships from the NEA, the Kansas Arts Commission, and the Missouri Arts Council.
The author has a large following at AWP and plans to attend AWP17 in Washington, DC (February 8-11)Table of Contents
Leading Questions
What might it mean to think & my own experience?
(or somebody?)
And, if so, for whom?
How do you have sex in hell?
Did she consider me dead?
What did I think we were doing?
Is there a way to wake up?
And after that?
Will my word grow & every day with silence?
Where does it come from and what does it consist of?
yellow-throated?
How do we move & to responsible action?
Can one be vulnerable to oneself?
But what is it that repetition repeats?
So how can ordinary people & state?
The feathers?
Is this the time when we compare notes?
Where do you draw the line between languages?
(still?)
What does it do to ones ipseity to say & I am dying?
By the scent of lavender emanating from them?
What is given as reality here?
What makes it possible for the category to act in this way?
What function does pain perform, does testimony?
How many of them are there? & What do they want?
Some mystical experience youve gone through, or what?
What happens to all those tears?
Why would I see she? What you mean?
What is that light like?
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