Description
Poetry. THE ANGEL VOICES is a sort of "luminous dream," sometimes so real you can feel the heat. In this elegant and haunting work, William Heyen pours forth prophetic words of an almost divine nature. The poems search through images of grace and beauty as well as the grotesque, such as furrows dug to "drain off / human fat / the pyres congealed / with firefolk / villages of them / cities of them..." This gorgeous cycle is so ripe with sound and song that we hear the angel voices in every syllable.
Author Bio
William Heyen is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at the College at Brockport, his undergraduate alma mater. He received his PhD from Ohio University, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from SUNY. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany, he has received NEA, Guggenheim, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other awards. His work has appeared in hundreds of anthologies, and in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Harper's, The Atlantic, The Southern Review, and numerous other magazines. His journals—five volumes published so far—may be the most extensive in American literature. Most of his Holocaust poems are collected in The Candle (2016). He is the author of WHETHER ART EILL EVER (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2021), Nature: Selected & New Poems 1970-2020, STRAIGHT'S SUITE FOR CRAIG COTTER & FRANK O'HARA (Mayapple Press, 2012), THE ANGERL VOICES: A POEM (Mayapple Press, 2010), and HOME: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, ETC. (MAMMOTH books, 2005).
Author City: BROCKPORT, NY USA