Brooks Haxton

Brooks Haxton (born 1950) is an American poet and academic.

Life
Haxton was born in Greenville, Mississippi.

Haxton lives in Syracuse with his wife and three children, and teaches in the writing programs at Syracuse University and Warren Wilson College.

Recognition
Haxton has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation[.

Poetry

 * The Lay of Eleanor and Irene. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1985.
 * Dominion: Poems. New York: Knopf, 1986.
 * Travelling Company: Poems. . New York: Knopf, 1989.
 * Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero: Poems. New York: Knopf, 2001.
 * Uproar: Antiphonies to Psalms: Poems. New York: Knopf, 2004.
 * The Sun at Night: Poems. New York: Knopf, 2005.
 * They Lift their Wings to Cry: Poems. . New York: Knopf, 2008.

Translated

 * Dances for Flute & Thunder: Praises, Prayers, and Insults: Poems from the ancient Greek. New York: Viking, 1999.
 * Fragments : The collected wisdom of Heraclitus. New York: Viking, 2001.
 * Victor Hugo, Selected Poems (translator & editor). Penguin Books, 2002.

Edited

 * Hayden Carruth, Last Poems (edited with Stephen Dobyns). Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2012.

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