01427oam 2200301z- 450 991014860940332120040127132336.01-61248-042-X(CKB)3710000000921701(BIP)034377838(BIP)006438215(EXLCZ)99371000000092170120190224c2016uuuu -u- -engRational numbers poems /by H.L. HixTruman State University Press1 online resource (64 p.) 0-943549-79-5 In his second book of poetry, H L Hix uses two contrasting poetic sequences. 'Orders of Magnitude' defies rationality in favour of invention in the musical sense: producing a short composition that works out a single idea. As in music, the whole composition achieves its irrational effect through rational formal structure, with 100 poems, each ten lines long, with ten syllables per line. In the second sequence, 'Figures', the speakers follow their 'pure' rationality, though it leads them -- inevitably -- into the dark heart of the irrational. The result is a ledger of love and loss, a balancing of grief's books.Rational Numbers Poetry (poetic works by one author)Poetry811/.54Hix H. L.1228785BOOK9910148609403321Rational numbers2852752UNINA