As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry

by H. L. Hix

Overview

If you were stranded on some far slope of Parnassus and could bring only one book to map the landscape, H.L. Hix’s As Easy As Lying would be a good choice. Accessible, erudite, and ebullient, these essays delve into the workings of the poetic mind and offer incisive assessments of contemporary American poets and poetics. Hix not only maps the landscape, he reshapes it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780971822832
Publisher:	Etruscan Press
Publication date:	09/01/2002
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

H. L. Hix teaches at the University of Wyoming. His previous books include Legible Heavens, God Bless, Shadows of Houses, Wild and Whirling Words, and As Easy as Lying. His Chromatic was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	First Books	1
	Training for Poets	7
	Covert Censorship	23
	New Formalism among the Postmoderns	28
	New Formalism at a Crossroads	36
	Formal Experimentation and Poetic Discovery	50
	On the (Ir)Regularity of Meter	57
	Poetics	65
	Abstraction's Command	75
	Gently Omitting	85
	Cold Baths	88
	Toward a Prodigal Logic	115