Brooks Haxton

Brooks Haxton is the son of novelist Ellen Douglas and composer Kenneth Haxton. He has published two book-length narrative poems, four previous collections of poetry, and translations of Victor Hugo, Heraclitus, and selected poems from the ancient Greek. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, among others. He lives with his wife and three children in Syracuse, New York, and teaches at the Syracuse University Program in Creative Writing and the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers.

Books by Brooks Haxton

Mister Toebones

Brooks Haxton

In these marvelous pages, the award-winning poet turns a searching gaze toward the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal. He looks back and forward in time, down at the soil, up at the stars, and deeply into his personal relationships.

Fading Hearts on the River

Brooks Haxton