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Demonstrategy: Poetry, For and Against
Against the busy background of the “information age” and the “anthropocene,” where’s poetry? It might seem invisible, irrelevant, but Demonstrategy proves it as salient as ever, and more urgent. In paired essays about poetry in the world and the world in poetry, Demonstrategy finds poetry’s pulse steady and strong.
194 pages, Paperback
Published October 8, 2019
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About the author
H.L. Hix
55 books19 followersH. L. Hix has published an anthology, Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation (2004), and eight books of poetry and literary criticism with Etruscan, including Shadows of Houses (2005), Chromatic (2006), God Bless: A Political/Poetic Discourse (2007), Legible Heavens (2008), Incident Light (2009), First Fire, Then Birds (2010), As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry (2002), and Lines of Inquiry (2011). He has two more books forthcoming from Etruscan, As Much As, If Not More Than (2013) and I’m Here to Learn to Dream in Your Language (2014).
In addition to having been a finalist for the National Book Award for Chromatic, his awards include the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Peregrine Smith Award, and fellowships from the NEA, the Kansas Arts Commission, and the Missouri Arts Council. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, taught at Kansas City Art Institute, and was an administrator at The Cleveland Institute of Art, before accepting his current position as professor in the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Wyoming. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at Shanghai University.
In addition to having been a finalist for the National Book Award for Chromatic, his awards include the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Peregrine Smith Award, and fellowships from the NEA, the Kansas Arts Commission, and the Missouri Arts Council. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, taught at Kansas City Art Institute, and was an administrator at The Cleveland Institute of Art, before accepting his current position as professor in the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Wyoming. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at Shanghai University.
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March 11, 2020
Wow! Brilliant book. Thought-provoking, profoundly intelligent, complex. By National Book Award finalist poet, H. L. Hix. For prose and poetry writers alike, and anyone interested in the ways language and art affect us—or don't. Sample chapters:
1: Make another world, make this world otherwise
1.1 Poetry Against Growth
1.2 Poetry Against Poems
2: Double stance, double vision
2.1 Poetry for Relationship
2.2 Poetry for Justice
... and on to 10 chapters. Magnificient!
1: Make another world, make this world otherwise
1.1 Poetry Against Growth
1.2 Poetry Against Poems
2: Double stance, double vision
2.1 Poetry for Relationship
2.2 Poetry for Justice
... and on to 10 chapters. Magnificient!
Displaying 1 of 1 review