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Moral Tales - Hix, H L
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"Plato may have pestered poets out of his republic, but he peppered his dialogues plenty with poetry of his own: the mind as an aviary, the soul as contrary horses chafing their charioteer. Marie de France might be more famed for her Lais, but she could fetch a pretty funny fable. In Moral Tales, H. L. Hix first treats (not "translates," quite) and then glosses a suite of each: flighty passages from Plato, earthy fables from Marie. Which makes the moral tales here tales you've heard before, but not the way you've heard them"--

Produktbeschreibung
"Plato may have pestered poets out of his republic, but he peppered his dialogues plenty with poetry of his own: the mind as an aviary, the soul as contrary horses chafing their charioteer. Marie de France might be more famed for her Lais, but she could fetch a pretty funny fable. In Moral Tales, H. L. Hix first treats (not "translates," quite) and then glosses a suite of each: flighty passages from Plato, earthy fables from Marie. Which makes the moral tales here tales you've heard before, but not the way you've heard them"--
Autorenporträt
H. L. Hix's other recent doings include a novel, The Death of H. L. Hix (Serving House Books, 2021); an edition and translation of THE GOSPEL (Broadstone Books, 2020) that merges canonical with noncanonical sources in a single narrative, and refers to God and Jesus without assigning them gender; a poetry collection, Bored In Arcane Cursive Under Lodgepole Bark (Middle Creek Publishing, 2023); an edition, with Julie Kane, of selected poems by contemporary Lithuanian poet Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūte, called Terribly In Love (Lost Horse Press, 2018); an essay collection, Demonstrategy (Etruscan Press, 2019); and an anthology of "poets and poetries, talking back," Counterclaims (Dalkey Archive Press, 2020). His book Constellation (Cloudbank Books, 2023) was awarded the 2023 Vern Rutsala Prize. He professes philosophy and creative writing at a university in "one of those square states."