Observations From a Hillside Stairway on the Day of Atonement, Just Before My Wife and Daughters Break Their Fast

Brooks Haxton is the author of Fading Hearts on the River (Counterpoint, 2014), the story of his son’s life in high-stakes poker. He is at work on his seventh collection of poems, Mr. Toebones, and a translation of selected poems by Else Lasker-Schuler. He teaches at Syracuse University.