Brooks Haxton

Biography

Brooks Haxton is the author of Fading Hearts on the River (Counterpoint, 2014), the story of his son’s life in high-stakes poker. He is at work on his seventh collection of poems, Mr. Toebones, and a translation of selected poems by Else Lasker-Schuler. He teaches at Syracuse University.

See Work

POETRY / Spring 2015

Observations From a Hillside Stairway on the Day of Atonement, Just Before My Wife and Daughters Break Their Fast

By Brooks Haxton

Under the hanging lights in a pool hall
at nineteen I read the table after the break
and followed a map in my head

POETRY / Spring 2015

Bananas

By Brooks Haxton
POETRY / Spring 2015

Journal of Dr. Beaurieux

By Brooks Haxton

and when I called out to the head, “Languille!”
the eyelids lifted up, this time, I swear,
in a distinctly normal movement, slow,
as if awakening, or torn from thought.

Winter 1995

The Learned Heveluis When He Mapped the Moon Found Waters There as Kepler and Pythogoras Had Done

By Brooks Haxton
Winter 1995

On the Inundated First Site of the Town of Greenville

By Brooks Haxton
Winter 1995

Two Ladies

By Brooks Haxton
Spring 1999

Psalm 104

By Brooks Haxton
Summer 1992

Her Parents Brought Suit, But Since She Was Incoherent and Profane

By Brooks Haxton