Poetry. LEGIBLE HEAVENS explores what the most intimate forms of experience reveal about our most cosmic concerns. Its four sequences act like compass points to orient a human landscape. The author of numerous books of poetry, criticism, and essay, Hix teaches at the University of Wyoming. His CHROMATIC was a finalist for the National Book Award. "untroubled authority...and the talent to make us weep"--Dan Chiasson. "He 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 the most challenging"--David Caplan.

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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