{"product_id":"9780974599519","title":"Incident Light: poems","description":"\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\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Etruscan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020674547952,"sku":"9780974599519","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780974599519_p0.jpg?v=1763876940","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780974599519","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}