Already at work rewriting and recontextualizing the language of others, H. L. Hix keeps at the task, renewing his own poems.

H. L. Hix: H. L. Hix teaches at the University of Wyoming.

Acknowledgments

Fire
8 Even Be It Built of Boards...
11 So I Might Have Your Company in Hell
24 Orders of Magnitude
50 Thistle, Clover, Rape
55 The God of Restlessness
64 The God of Window Screens and Honeysuckle
87 Remarks on Color
94 Eighteen Maniacs
106 The Well-Tempered Clavier
123 All the One-Eyed Boys in Town
135 Material Implication

Birds
142 Though What Falls Fall Hard...
147 This Particular Eden
149 Child of Their Old Age
151 Listings
155 Less Said
157 Toward a Prodigal Logic
164 First Term
183 Figures
190 Star Chart for the Rainy Season
193 A Study of Thermodynamics
200 A Manual of Happiness
219 The Prophets
220 Synopsis
230 The Letters
232 Calendologium
236 Valediction