Constellation

Winner of the 2023 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize, Constellation is the 8th book of poems by H.L. Hix. Constellation is poetry on a larger scale than we are used to, an extraordinary combination of memory and meditation, precise and personal, ritualistic, soaring, by turns, with eloquence, erudition, candor. In both rich and allusive verse, and prose with poetic charge, the work draws you in and won't let you forget the vivid motifs and variations that repeat as in an oratorio, often playful, in the idioms of today, while touching the timeless and magnificent. -Robert Morgan, author of Dark Territory