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.

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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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • I Want To Pray
    In the hidden part thou shalt make me to know
    wisdom. Psalm 51

    That young man ...
  • Monster Minded
    The wine of astonishment
    is house wine at my house.
    The whiskey of it is a sauce
    we savor. The cocaine ...
  • 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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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 [2/2]
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 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

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