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Birth date
1950
Birth town
Greenville
Country
Mississippi
Poems by this Poet
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Unclean
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Thy Name
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Storm
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Submersible
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Salesmanship, With Half A Dram Of Tears
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Sackcloth
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Rotgut
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Monster Minded
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I Want to Pray
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Every Death Is Magic from the Enemy to Be Avenged
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Brooks Haxton, born in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1950, is the son of the novelist Ellen Douglas and the composer Kenneth Haxton. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, Haxton teaches in the writing programs at Syracuse University and Warren Wilson College. He lives in Syracuse with his wife and three children.

Brooks Haxton's Works:

Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero, The Lay of Eleanor and Irene (Backcountry, 1985)
Dominion (Knopf, 1986)
Traveling Company (Knopf, 1989)
Dead Reckoning (Story Line Press, 1989)
The Sun at Night (Knopf, 1997)