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More copies of this ISBN:Shoah Trainby William Heyen
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Over the decades Heyen has most often dreamed of, studied, and written about the Holocaust. His ground-breaking collection The Swastika Poems (1977) was revised and expanded to Erika (1984). Thirteen more of these poems appear in Falling from Heaven (1991). Now, Shoah Train collects more than seventy poems written over the last dozen years, lyrics of "discipline and honesty and courage and restraint," as Archibald MacLeish described The Swastika Poems. Experiencing the new poems in Shoah Train the reader will find themselves in the voice-presence of one of our most important poets. Synopsis:Over the decades, William Heyen has most often dreamed of, studied, and written about the Holocaust. Now, Shoah Traincollects more than seventy poems written over the last dozen years, lyrics of "discipline and honesty and courage and restraint,"as Archibald MacLeish described The Swastika Poems. Shoah Trainwas a National Book Award finalist for poetry in 2004. William Heyenis a former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany and has won awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, Poetry, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His work has appeared in many leading journals and more than one hundred anthologies. Shoah Trainwas a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2004. He is professor of English and poet in residence at the State University of New York at Brockport. About the AuthorWilliam Heyen was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940. Currently Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at SUNY Brockport, he has been awarded Fulbright, NEA, American Academy of Arts & Letters, Guggenheim, and other fellowships and prizes. His work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The Nation, and The Ontario Review. Heyen is the author of several collections of poetry, including Erika: Poems of the Holocaust, The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990 (both Time-Being Books), Diana, Charles & the Queen, and Crazy Horse in Stillness (both from BOA Editions, Ltd), which won the 1997 National Small Press Book Award for Poetry. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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