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Mister Toebones

Poems

by Brooks Haxton
Edoardo Ballerini
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In these marvelous pages, the award-winning poet turns a searching gaze toward the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal. He looks back and forward in time, down at the soil, up at the stars, and deeply into his personal relationships.
Brooks Haxton has been writing for years about the connections between human beings and the creatures we find fascinating. Mister Toebones, his new collection, draws its title from a nickname Haxton gives to a daddy longlegs he sees at his father's grave. In another poem, the poet and his mother, in search of a swimming hole, find a copperhead rearing to strike, about to birth its live young. Elsewhere, waist-deep in the Mississippi River, under the Atlantic Ocean, on the cracked ice of a frozen pond, even in outer space, the poet explores regions and forces that seem past endurance. Taking stock of threats against human survival, our own recklessness chief among them, these poems seek among visionaries and despots, scientific prodigies, murderers, and lovers what vitality may come from an alertness to all living things.

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  • Release date

    March 23, 2021

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593409855
      • File size: 42572 KB
      • Duration: 01:28:41

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      There is no shortage of fine poets in the United States today, and Brooks Haxton has to be counted among them. In this audiobook, his talent is matched by that of narrator Edoardo Ballerini and benefits from Ballerini's straightforward treatment. The poems are clear and accessible on the first hearing--but rewarding on a second or third. The readings focus on clarity without diminishing subtlety. Ballerini makes the syntax and line breaks equally easy to hear. It would be easy to overdramatize some of the poems--for example, a long piece involving the murder of one of Haxton's ancestors in pre-Civil War Louisiana--but he resists that temptation and leaves room for the listener's interpretation and involvement. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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