{"product_id":"incident-light-h-l-hix-9780974599519","title":"Incident Light","description":"\"'Nothing attested, everything sung.' And these poems are the songs, the mournful lieder of a reimagined life. \u003cb\u003eH. L. Hix\u003c\/b\u003e's melodies are pure; his harmonies are haunting and strange. Incident Light composes a soaring chorus from the dark and private notes of long-kept secrets.\"-- \u003cb\u003eAlyson Hagy\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSnow, Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Any new book by this inventive poet is cause for excitement.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Kansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hix's eighth collection is a fine addition to this protean poet's fast-growing (and critically lauded) body of work. Like \u003cb\u003eC.D. Wright\u003c\/b\u003e, Hix works both with highly wrought descriptive passages and with verse that sounds like regular speech cutting swiftly between them.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eH. L. Hix\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003cb\u003eIncident Light\u003c\/b\u003e explores a life that became \"instantly mythical\" after a startling revelation. The artist Petra Soesemann learned at age forty-nine that the dad who had raised her from birth was not her biological father. Her dad had died some years before; her father was still alive. Her dad, like her mother, was a blue-eyed German blond; her father was Turkish, with dark eyes and dark hair like Petra's own.  \u003cb\u003eIncident Light\u003c\/b\u003e is a biography: not an ordered account of the facts of a life, but an invitation into the dad's devotion, the mother's passion, the father's honor, and especially into the daughter's own embracing of her experience, newly understood. \u003cb\u003eIncident Light\u003c\/b\u003e testifies to the many lives that converge on one life to lend it beauty and mystery.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eH. L. Hix\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the University of Wyoming. His \u003ci\u003eChromatic \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the National Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. L. Hix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0974599514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780974599519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Etruscan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/21\/2009 pg. 39","brand":"H. L. Hix","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372332339455,"sku":"9780974599519","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2672be27-05c3-45f2-9454-b77b71dbeb92.jpg?v=1732725653","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/incident-light-h-l-hix-9780974599519","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}