Brooks Haxton
Who is Brooks Haxton
Brooks Haxton (born December 1, 1950) is an American poet and translator. His publications include nine books of original poems and four books of translations from the German, the French, and ancient Greek. In 2014 he published Fading Hearts on the River, a book of nonfiction about his son's professional poker career.
Biography
Early years and education
Haxton grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, and graduated from Greenville High School in 1968. He then attended Beloit College in Wisconsin, graduating with a BA in English literature and composition in 1972. He earned an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University in 1981. His parents, Kenneth Haxton (1919–2002) and Josephine Ayres Haxton (1921–2012), were both writers, although Kenneth Ha...
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Brooks Haxton Poems
- Sackcloth
I made sackcloth my garment once, by cutting
arm and neck holes into a burlap bag.
A croker sack they called it. Sackdragger
they called the man who dragged a croker sack
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- Salesmanship, With Half A Dram Of Tears
Gripping the lectern, rocking it, searching
the faces for the souls, for signs of heartfelt
mindfulness at work, I thought, as I recited
words I wrote in tears: instead of tears,
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- I Want To Pray
In the hidden part thou shalt make me to know
wisdom. Psalm 51
That young man
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- Monster Minded
The wine of astonishment
is house wine at my house.
The whiskey of it is a sauce
we savor. The cocaine
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- 1985
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth
the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in
the blood of the wicked. Psalm 58
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Comments about Brooks Haxton
- Cwinguexkull: that fragment has a more evocative translation by brooks haxton that hints at the anomalies wrecking paul & ignatius’ apocalyptic timeline: “whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing, for the known way is an impasse.”
- Princessekateri: time is a game played beautifully by children.
~ heraclitus
{as quoted in fragments (2001) translated by brooks haxton}
- Swotansson: this brooks haxton is a horrible translator who takes out of his arse meanings which are not on the original text. herákleitos is clear as the midday, but the modern reader, who is ignorant, will not understand him. the other books will be of extreme usefulness!
- Orgetorix: check out this book: "fragments (penguin classics)" by heraclitus, james hillman, brooks haxton
- Sebids: "and all the rest make no attempt.
they no more see
how they behave broad waking
than remember clearly
what they did asleep."
- fragments - the collected wisdom of heraclitus, translated by brooks haxton, with a foreword by james hillman
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