"Shadows of Houses, H.L. Hix's new collection, is both vatic and
precise. Patiently looking at and through the quotidian, Hix registers
the tiny and immense phenomena of change and variation the seasons and
hours bring. The remarkable sequence 'the God of Window Screens and
Honeysuckle' is a compendium of outer and inner weather--a naturalist's
neighbor's, philospher's, and poet's almanac, and a source of wisdom and
beauty I shall regularly return to."--Rachel Hadas