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Ley lines mark alignments of sacred sites such as ridgetops and ancient megaliths and create pathways between them. This book too marks alignments and creates pathways, but its sacred sites are not monuments, they're artworks and poems. Its various forms of exchange between writers and artists offer unique access to contemporary art, poetry, and the creative process.
In this unique anthology, working poets respond to questions about their recent books, painters and other artists offer statements about their work, and writers respond to artworks. These offerings and exchanges are juxtaposed so as to speak to one another in a capacious, resonant dialogue. The result is a broad-minded and inclusive poetics, a vision of creative work as a constituent of personal and civic life.
Anyone who nurtures the creative impulse will enjoy
Ley Lines and return to it again and again. Writing students, art students, and any reader engaged in artistic practice will find in
Ley Lines not a how-to manual or step-by-step instruction but an inexhaustible vein of instructive reflection on imaginative work and the creative life.
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Ley LinesH.L. HixAbout This BookRationaleProcessParticipantsElements and PatternMysteryWays of DialogueCapacious Enlivened Sense, Complex Daily ArdorBetween: Paisley Rekdal Anne Lindberg Renée AshleyBalance: Zach Savich Vera Scekic Jericho BrownRepresentation: Johanna Skibsrud Ien Dobbelaar Michelle BoisseauMost Importantly I Have My LibraryArchive: Brian Teare Thomas Lyon Mills Evie ShockleyScan: Matthew Cooperman Bruce Checefsky Mary QuadeThings: Lia Purpura Jason Dodge Philip MetresOnly Rearrange the StonesRepetition: Jon Woodward Doug Russell Andrew JoronPattern: Scott King Gerry Trilling Nin AndrewsSpacing: Gillian Conoley Phillip Michael Hook Alex Stein Here Long Enough to DisappearComplexity: Lily Brown Sreshta Rit Premnath Debra Di BlasiComplexity: Veronica Golos Alisa Henriquez Caleb KlacesOpposition: Catherine Taylor Jane Lackey Carol MoldawEach Begun With a StainVoices: Jacqueline Jones LaMon Murat Germen Nina FoxxParticulate: Laurie Saurborn Young China Marks Denise Duhamel Connections: Valerie Martínez Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann Anis ShivaniAlive in a Strange RegionResponse: Kristi Maxwell Aviva Rahmani Rupert LoydellLanguage: Jill Magi Brian Dupont Rita WongWords: Jena Osman Sarah Walko Bin RamkeTo Invent a MethodBeauty: Kathleen Wakefield Anne Devaney Jonathan WeinertAura: Sue Sinclair Anna Von Mertens Afaa Michael WeaverSpace: Dan Beachy-Quick Cassandra Hooper Alyson HagyThis and Other Labor-Intensive TechniquesAttention: Julie Hanson Adriane Herman Laura MullenConfrontation: Sandra Simonds Jim Sajovic Susan AizenbergThe Real: Lisa Fishman Leeah Joo Jennifer AtkinsonThe World to MeEvent: Paige Ackerson-Kiely Christine Drake Cynthia AtkinsMoments: Warren Heiti Susan Moldenhauer Bruce BondSetting: Juliana Spahr Leah Hardy Christine GelineauAnd Their Shadows At the Same TimeFailure: Kirsten Kaschock Daniel Dove Ann McCutchanUncertain: Barbara Maloutas Christopher Leitch Supriya BhatnagarDisappearance: Jared Carter Shelby Shadwell Alison CalderWorks About Which Interview Questions Are PosedArtworks ReproducedAcknowledgementsAbout the CuratorAbout the Contributors
About the author
H. L. Hix is the author or editor of more than two dozen books. His most recent poetry collection is As Much As, If Not More Than. He lives with the poet Kate Northrop in an 1880s railroad house in the mountain west, and writes in a studio that once was a barn. His website is www.hlhix.com.
