Brooks Haxton has published five collections of poems with
Alfred A. Knopf:
Dominion, Traveling Company, The Sun at Night, Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero, and
Uproar. His two book-length narrative poems are
The Lay of Eleanor and
Irene and
Dead Reckoning. As a translator, he has published two collections from the ancient Greek,
Fragments:
The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus and
Dances for Flute and
Thunder, and a bicentennial selection of poems by Victor Hugo, all three from
Viking Penguin. His poems have appeared in the
Paris Review,
The Atlantic Monthly,
The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C. Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
