Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero Poems
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 10/01/2001
Description:
As its title suggests, this book embraces everything basic in our existence, from our naked beginnings (the book opens with the birth of the poet's twin daughters), to our attempts to master our world with mathematics, poetry, and other products of the human consciousness. It contains long poems that are virtually short stories in verse -- "Teenage Ikon" is about the inevitable trouble when best friends fight over a girl -- and brief, elegant lyrics the reader will memorize instantly.
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Haxton is unembarrassed to write tender love poems, but he has a sense of humor about himself. See the poem "Author's Bio, " which begins, "Son of a Maori priestess and a Tasmanian pirate, / Brooks Haxton at two was thrown as a human sacrifice / from the gunwale of a careening brig..." Readers should delight in his sparkling reflections on friendship, nature, sex, marriage, and perception.
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