This book, which is unlike any other in our literature, was written during the three months following September 11, 2001. The editor wanted to catch the first, passionate reactions of many of our finest creative writers to a matrix of grievous events that would continue to intensify in the American memory as have few others. In September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, more than 125 fiction writers, poets, and essayists are seized in ways that often surprise themselves; together they offer a revelation of our collective psyche during a perilous time.
This book, which is unlike any other in our literature, was written during the three months following September 11, 2001. The editor wanted to catc...
William Heyen's music and meditations continue to amaze. I've now read and absorbed all the poems of A Poetics of Hiroshima. I am not ready to write anything about them, except to express my awe.-Cynthia OzickA remarkable poet in whom the 'visionary' and the unblinkingly 'historical' are dramatically meshed. He writes with the wild, radiant audacity of the visionary; yet his eye and ear are sharp, unsparing.-Joyce Carol OatesThe author of eighteen books of poetry, William Heyen has been awarded Fulbright, NEA, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Guggenheim fellowships and prizes. His...
William Heyen's music and meditations continue to amaze. I've now read and absorbed all the poems of A Poetics of Hiroshima. I am not ready to write a...
William Heyen's work explores romantic conceptions of contemporary sport, powering its way into a post-catastrophe setting of dirty bombs in stadiums, tortured athletes, corporate domination, and cynicism on a global level.
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Except for a shotgun blast from the stands, he'd have broken the goal-line plane, a record for the most TDs by a dead Heisman.
William Heyen is a well-known and revered writer, and author of some twenty-five books of poetry, memoir, criticism, and poetics. His book Shoah Train was a finalist for the National...
William Heyen's work explores romantic conceptions of contemporary sport, powering its way into a post-catastrophe setting of dirty bombs in stadiu...
William Heyen:: Lord Dragonfly originally published in 1981 by Vanguard Press. reissued 2010 by H_NGM_N BKS. The full text of the original volume including new notes by the author, a preface by series editor Nate Pritts & a critical appreciation by Matthew Henriksen.
William Heyen:: Lord Dragonfly originally published in 1981 by Vanguard Press. reissued 2010 by H_NGM_N BKS. The full text of the original volume incl...
The Candle is a record, unlike any other in literature, of an American poet's staring into the central atrocities of our Twentieth Century, of his struggle against soul-sickness as he attempts, over almost fifty years, by way of despised and barbaric poetry (in Theodor Adorno's terms), to find ways to realize (make real), to understand, and to remember.
William Heyen is a former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American literature in Germany. Crazy Horse in Stillness won the Small Press Book Award, Shoah Train was a National Book Award finalist, and A...
The Candle is a record, unlike any other in literature, of an American poet's staring into the central atrocities of our Twentieth Century, ...
