Table of Contents
Table of Contents for
Ley Lines
H.L. Hix
About This Book
Rationale
Process
Participants
Elements and Pattern
Mystery
Ways of Dialogue
Capacious Enlivened Sense, Complex Daily Ardor
Between: Paisley Rekdal Anne Lindberg Renée Ashley
Balance: Zach Savich Vera Scekic Jericho Brown
Representation: Johanna Skibsrud Ien Dobbelaar Michelle
Boisseau
Most Importantly I Have My Library
Archive: Brian Teare Thomas Lyon Mills Evie Shockley
Scan: Matthew Cooperman Bruce Checefsky Mary Quade
Things: Lia Purpura Jason Dodge Philip Metres
Only Rearrange the Stones
Repetition: Jon Woodward Doug Russell Andrew Joron
Pattern: Scott King Gerry Trilling Nin Andrews
Spacing: Gillian Conoley Phillip Michael Hook Alex Stein
Here Long Enough to Disappear
Complexity: Lily Brown Sreshta Rit Premnath Debra Di Blasi
Complexity: Veronica Golos Alisa Henriquez Caleb Klaces
Opposition: Catherine Taylor Jane Lackey Carol Moldaw
Each Begun With a Stain
Voices: Jacqueline Jones LaMon Murat Germen Nina Foxx
Particulate: Laurie Saurborn Young China Marks Denise
Duhamel
Connections: Valerie Martínez Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann Anis
Shivani
Alive in a Strange Region
Response: Kristi Maxwell Aviva Rahmani Rupert Loydell
Language: Jill Magi Brian Dupont Rita Wong
Words: Jena Osman Sarah Walko Bin Ramke
To Invent a Method
Beauty: Kathleen Wakefield Anne Devaney Jonathan Weinert
Aura: Sue Sinclair Anna Von Mertens Afaa Michael Weaver
Space: Dan Beachy-Quick Cassandra Hooper Alyson Hagy
This and Other Labor-Intensive Techniques
Attention: Julie Hanson Adriane Herman Laura Mullen
Confrontation: Sandra Simonds Jim Sajovic Susan Aizenberg
The Real: Lisa Fishman Leeah Joo Jennifer Atkinson
The World to Me
Event: Paige Ackerson-Kiely Christine Drake Cynthia Atkins
Moments: Warren Heiti Susan Moldenhauer Bruce Bond
Setting: Juliana Spahr Leah Hardy Christine Gelineau
And Their Shadows At the Same Time
Failure: Kirsten Kaschock Daniel Dove Ann McCutchan
Uncertain: Barbara Maloutas Christopher Leitch Supriya
Bhatnagar
Disappearance: Jared Carter Shelby Shadwell Alison Calder
Works About Which Interview Questions Are Posed
Artworks Reproduced
Acknowledgements
About the Curator
About the Contributors
About the Author
H. L. Hix is the author or editor of more than two dozen
books. His most recent poetry collection is As Much As, If Not More
Than. He lives with the poet Kate Northrop in an 1880s railroad
house in the mountain west, and writes in a studio that once was a
barn. His website is www.hlhix.com.
Reviews
"Hix assembles an array of contemporary poets and visual artists
into a single conversation that is at once deeply philosophical,
literary, and often times politically subversive. Ultimately, this
compilation reminds readers how closely the act of creating art is
linked to the art of listening. director, Thacher Gallery,
University of San Francisco
"In 'Ley Lines', H. L. Hix assembles an array of contemporary poets
and visual artists into a single conversation that is at once
deeply philosophical, literary, and often times politically
subversive. From dialogues on poetics to meditations on how one
continues to create in a country (world) of non-stop war, these
elegantly curated triads reverberate with collective insights.
Ultimately, this compilation reminds readers how closely the act of
creating art--written and visual--is linked to the art of
listening." -- Glori Simmons, director, Thacher Gallery, University
of San Francisco
"H. L. Hix's generative, generous anthology renews the poetics of
listening. The dialogues between poets and artists seem to ask, in
the words of Brian Teare, what kind of language 'offers clarity
sufficient to pain'? One of the most fascinating questions Hix
returns to, with a refreshing and buoyant inter-criticality, is
whether language adapts consciousness or perception to it or vice
versa. 'Capacious' is a word he is fond of, and his wide arc of
collaborative inquiry into eternity, war, responsiveness and
responsibility delivers an expansive one-pointedness. Hix is an
able, engaging curator whose book takes time and enriches it." --
Cherry Smyth, poet and curator
