Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. A collection of essays, interviews, and other prose by esteemed poet William Heyen. "William Heyen is that rare American phenomenon: an undervalued major American poet"--Vince Clemente. "William Heyen is a remarkable poet"--Joyce Carol Oates.
Author City: BROCKPORT, NY USA
William Heyen is 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 Magazine, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His books include STRAIGHT'S SUITE FOR CRAIG COTTER & FRANK O'HARA (Mayapple Press, 2012), A POETICS OF HIROSHIMA (Etruscan Press, 2008), TO WILLIAM MERWIN: A POEM (Mammoth Books, 2007), TITANIC & ICEBERG: EARLY ESSAYS & REVIEWS (Mammoth Books, 2006), and THE CONFESSIONS OF DOC WILLIAMS & OTHER POEMS (Etruscan Press, 2006).