Poetry. INCIDENT LIGHT, H. L. Hix's latest poetry collection, explores the life of artist Petra Soesemann, changed by the startling revelation—when she was forty-nine—that the dad who had raised her from birth was not her biological father. Dad's devotion, mother's passion, father's honor, and the daughter's own embracing of her experience, newly understood: INCIDENT LIGHT shows many lives converging on one life, infusing it with beauty and mystery.

Author City: LARAMIE, WY USA

Harvey Lee Hix (born 1960), who signs his work H.L. Hix, is an American poet and academic. Hix is the author of books of poetry, criticism and essays and has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA. He has also won the KCAI Teaching Excellence Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry (from Truman State University Press in Missouri, no relation to the more famous prize in Britain). In 2006 he was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. He is a professor and the director of the creative writing MFA program at the University of Wyoming.

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Ken Tucker @ EW's Shelf Life
Troy Jollimore in Boston Review