The Severity Of The Perfect Circle by H. L. Hix
“Hix is perhaps our foremost philosopher-poet.”
— Jonathan Weinert, Cloudbank
“Hix is perhaps our foremost philosopher-poet.”
— Jonathan Weinert, Cloudbank
“Hix is perhaps our foremost philosopher-poet.”
— Jonathan Weinert, Cloudbank
“I see circles in the world as often as I see sparrows,” H. L. Hix declares, and “asymptotes as seldom as snow leopards, but I can picture either figure, as I can picture either creature, with equal clarity.” His new book’s two sequences, “Loops” and “Orbits,” picture with equal clarity the local (neighbors Burl and Belle, Pearly and Tuff, the goat people…) and the global (“The Book of Fate, written in a language of which there are no native speakers left…”). Timaeus assured Socrates of the concentricity of world and soul, and Pythagoras insisted that in their rounds the heavens harmonize. In The Severity of the Perfect Circle, H. L. Hix listens for how one imperfect human life might sound, if world and soul did form perfect circles, and circles sang.
•
“Hix is perhaps our foremost philosopher-poet.”
— Jonathan Weinert, Cloudbank
“What distinguishes Hix’s poetry is that it invites the reader into the process of specifically philosophical thinking, of engaging in a search for intelligible meaning while holding as few things constant as possible, and attempting to be neither overwhelmed nor undermined by the vertiginous chasm that inevitably opens beneath one’s feet at such moments.”
— Troy Jollimore, Boston Review
•
H. L. Hix’s other recent works include the poetry collections Bored in Arcane Cursive Under Lodgepole Bark and Beckoned Back by Hell-Bent Blackbirds, and two BlazeVOX books, Say It Into My Mouth and American Outrage.
Book Information:
· Paperback: 120 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
· ISBN: 978-1-60964-509-0
$18