H. L. Hix’s most recent books are a “selected poems,” First Fire, Then Birds: Obsessionals 1985-2010 (Etruscan Press, 2010); a translation, made with the author, of Eugenijus Ališanka’s from unwritten histories (Host Publications, 2011); and an essay collection, Lines of Inquiry (Etruscan Press, 2011). His website is www.hlhix.com.
Winter 2012
One Hundred Definitions of Poetry, Each Unsound
A mistaking of events for conditions.
The Constitution that constitutes what precedes any constitution.
Willing suspension of disbelief and of any other participant in sound judgment.
Civis, dreaming itself animus.