{"product_id":"incident-light-paperback","title":"Incident Light - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eH. L. Hix\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'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\u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eH. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 73\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42174241308807,"sku":"9780974599519","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5b4cc877bbf38968b47beddca039dd9a.webp?v=1733373066","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/incident-light-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}