Synopses & Reviews
“These are ambitious, moving poems, deft, panged, and stunning.”—Dean Young
“Existential chilliness, mourning, and dread find a uniquely compelling voice in Thomas Heise's poetry. . . .”—Alan Williamson
"Horror Vacui offers an often vertiginous account of how death imposes [an] irresistible fact on minds bent on both accommodating and resisting this one inevitable yet impossible truth. . . . And it's this property of being barely held together that makes Horror Vacui so striking. . . . an extraordinary mood piece."—Ray McDaniel
In his haunting debut collection Horror Vacui, Thomas Heise explores the fear of empty space, a mysterious and abiding absence that is a pronounced presence in this poet's lyrical voice.
Thomas Heise holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of California at Davis and a PhD from New York University. Currently he teaches at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
Synopsis
"These are ambitious, moving poems, deft, panged, and stunning."-Dean Young
"Existential chilliness, mourning, and dread find a uniquely compelling voice in Thomas Heise's poetry. . . ."-Alan Williamson
"Horror Vacuioffers an often vertiginous account of how deathimposes [an] irresistible fact on minds bent on both accommodating andresisting this one inevitable yet impossible truth. . . . And it's thisproperty of being barely held together that makes Horror Vacuiso striking. . . . an extraordinary mood piece."-Ray McDaniel
In his haunting debut collection Horror Vacui, Thomas Heise explores the fear of empty space, a mysterious and abiding absence that is a pronounced presence in this poet's lyrical voice.
Thomas Heiseholds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of California at Davis and a PhD from New York University. Currently he teaches at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
Synopsis
Innovative debut collection mixing surrealism, autobiography, and elegy.
About the Author
Thomas Heise was born in northern Michigan, raised in southern Florida, education in California and New York, and now lives in Montreal. He won the 2004 Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry. His essays on American literature have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies and in BioCritiques. Currently, he teaches at McGill University in Canada.