As Much As, If Not More Than explores the unmapped region between prose and poetry and reveals a new possibility.

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

Table of Contents

Hardest Statements

More Than

Definitions
Criteria
Thrusts
Self-Interview
Parries
Questions

As Much As

First on the List of Dispersals
No Longer the Strength, Never the Courage
Tenuous Holds
What Creature In What Darkness
In the Dream, a Premonition
To What Lies Beyond
How More Free Than As If Deep Under?
Neither Plea of Innocence Nor Admission of Guilt
Stay Secret, Stay Lost
And a Code to the Code
The Seen, Windbent as the Remembered
With Its Husk of Event Peeled Away
Between Any Two Flat Worlds
Wisps for Mortar, Traces for Bricks
Drawn From, Left Beside, Poured Into
This Body a Sea
These Underwatered
Not Where I Lost Count, But When
Looped and Spooling Things
As If It Meant to Them What It Means to Us
Carefully Selected Degradations
A Falling Thing on Fire from Its Fall
Sunk Under, Bursting From
First Husks, Then Shatter
As If We Were, As If We Were To
Better Over Than Across
Not to Record But to Remark Absence
Stacked, Layered, Hushed
Holds the Place, But Does Not Fulfill the Function, Of
Toward a Convocation of Ephemera
Constant, Modest, Anonymous
Lavender the Greeting, the Clue
Fistfought
In Place of One Ruin, Another
Surface Effects
As Energy, So Its Flowing
Hush, Glow