The Candle
Selected and New Poems
Published on 1. November 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-9903221-7-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Candle is a record, unlike any other in literature, of an American poet's staring into the central atrocities of the 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 realise (make real), to understand, and to remember.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9903221-7-7 (9780990322177)
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Person
William Heyen: William Heyen was born in Brooklyn, NY. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American literature in Germany, he has won NEA, Guggenheim, the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and other awards. His graduate degrees are from Ohio University, and SUNY recently awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He edited September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (Etruscan Press). His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and anthologies. His Crazy Horse in Stillness won the Small Press Book Award, Shoah Train was a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Poetics of Hiroshima was a selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. He is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at the College Brockport.
Content
Contents
from The Swastika Poems (1977)
A Snapshot of My Father, 1928
For Wilhelm Heyen
For Hermann Heyen
Men in History
Riddle
Passover: The Injections
I Dream of Justice
The Trench
Darkness
Erika
The Baron's Tour
Blue
The Liberation Films
The Spire
A Visit to Belzec
On an Archaic Torso of Apollo (after Rilke)
The Numinous
The Uncertainty Principle
Simple Truths
The Swastika Poems
from Erika (1984)
Stories
Three Relations
A New Bible
Nocturne: The Reichsführer at Stutthof
The Car
The Hair: Jacob Korman's Story
The Funnel: Speech to Jews at Treblinka by Kurt Franz
Dark in the Reich of the Blond
Kotov
The Trains
To the Onlookers (after Sachs)
The Legacy
The Angel Hour
Mandorla (after Celan)
Death Fugue (after Celan)
Poem Touching the Gestapo
My Holocaust Songs
The Vapor
The Halo
The Children
This Night
from Falling from Heaven (1991)
Children's Poem: This Village
The Dead
The Lice Boy of Belsen
Sonnet & Haiku: Forms from the Reich University
Scripture: Himmler on Mercilessness
"Canada"
The Apple
Coin
The Secret
The Power
The Candle
from Ribbons: The Gulf War (1991)
2. (The Reich)
3. (Wings)
5. (The Indian Wars)
9. (Sorties)
13. (Conventions)
20. (Aktion)
23. (Home)
24. (The Frog)
29. (Gifts)
35. (The Heart)
38. (The Truth)
39. (The Job)
40. (Storm Coda)
41. (Epilogue)
from The Angel Voices: A Poem (1997-98 / 2010)
from Shoah Train (2003)
Prayer
The Annunciation
Chimney, 1950
Dedication, 1939
Roof
Fugue for Kristallnacht
Bloodhound
Pleurisy
The Gift
Ghosts
"Christmas Celebration of SS Guards at Neungamme"
Euthanasia Economy
Schnapps
Milk Silhouette
Testimonies, 1946
Presence
Parity
Voice
Almond
Perpetrator
Child
Auschwitz Reich Disfigured Haiku Sequence
The Bear
Stones: The Efficacy of Poetry
Affliction
Ardor
Mole
Elegy
Revelation: Theresienstadt Story
The Berries
Star Song
Shoah Train
The Presence of Absence
Candy
ID
On an Injunction by Theodor Adorno
Bread
The Head
Visitors: Last Poem
Barrow Sunrise
Catbird
from A Poetics of Hiroshima (2008)
History
It Came to Pass
Then: Ghost Story, 1944
The Pearl Museum
Museum Visitor Coda
Sleepers
Lullaby
Dr. Heim
Poetry
The Word
Anthem
Exercise
History
Illumination Graft
If
Sunlight
Autumn Rain, 1946
Iwo Dahlia
The Streetcar: August 6, 1945
A Poetics of Hiroshima
Shoah Train: Spring Coda
Soap
Rose
Fledgling
Blueberries Album
The Carriages
The Killers
The Light
Hiroshima Suite (2012)
The Candle: New Poems
Butterfly
1939: The Medal
Blutzeugtag: Blood Oath Day
Flame
Testimony of Christa Schröder
The Murderer
Interrogation
Civilization
Reminder
Sailing to Danzig
Otto Pressburger, 18, at Birkenau, 1942
Luger
Determination
Katyn, 1941: The Germans
Sport
Eyes
Avraham Tory: Diary from the Kovno Ghetto
Shekhinah
Definition for the New Bible
Bayer Co. to the Auschwitz Authorities
The Arrival Sonnet: Dagmar Ostermann
Prayer
Prayer
Absence
Night Parable
Sound
Volcano: Testimony of Albert Hartl
Hitler Street
Of Covenant
Axe
Gypsies
Exile Diptych
Nihilism Crematorium
Sonnet Ending in Trite Rhyme
Beauty
The Maggots Speak
Poem
The Candle
Kurt M. Regarding the Shofar
Voller Zug
Dandelions: The Survivor
Meditation
Insanity
Angel
Life
Art
Notes
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
from The Swastika Poems (1977)
A Snapshot of My Father, 1928
For Wilhelm Heyen
For Hermann Heyen
Men in History
Riddle
Passover: The Injections
I Dream of Justice
The Trench
Darkness
Erika
The Baron's Tour
Blue
The Liberation Films
The Spire
A Visit to Belzec
On an Archaic Torso of Apollo (after Rilke)
The Numinous
The Uncertainty Principle
Simple Truths
The Swastika Poems
from Erika (1984)
Stories
Three Relations
A New Bible
Nocturne: The Reichsführer at Stutthof
The Car
The Hair: Jacob Korman's Story
The Funnel: Speech to Jews at Treblinka by Kurt Franz
Dark in the Reich of the Blond
Kotov
The Trains
To the Onlookers (after Sachs)
The Legacy
The Angel Hour
Mandorla (after Celan)
Death Fugue (after Celan)
Poem Touching the Gestapo
My Holocaust Songs
The Vapor
The Halo
The Children
This Night
from Falling from Heaven (1991)
Children's Poem: This Village
The Dead
The Lice Boy of Belsen
Sonnet & Haiku: Forms from the Reich University
Scripture: Himmler on Mercilessness
"Canada"
The Apple
Coin
The Secret
The Power
The Candle
from Ribbons: The Gulf War (1991)
2. (The Reich)
3. (Wings)
5. (The Indian Wars)
9. (Sorties)
13. (Conventions)
20. (Aktion)
23. (Home)
24. (The Frog)
29. (Gifts)
35. (The Heart)
38. (The Truth)
39. (The Job)
40. (Storm Coda)
41. (Epilogue)
from The Angel Voices: A Poem (1997-98 / 2010)
from Shoah Train (2003)
Prayer
The Annunciation
Chimney, 1950
Dedication, 1939
Roof
Fugue for Kristallnacht
Bloodhound
Pleurisy
The Gift
Ghosts
"Christmas Celebration of SS Guards at Neungamme"
Euthanasia Economy
Schnapps
Milk Silhouette
Testimonies, 1946
Presence
Parity
Voice
Almond
Perpetrator
Child
Auschwitz Reich Disfigured Haiku Sequence
The Bear
Stones: The Efficacy of Poetry
Affliction
Ardor
Mole
Elegy
Revelation: Theresienstadt Story
The Berries
Star Song
Shoah Train
The Presence of Absence
Candy
ID
On an Injunction by Theodor Adorno
Bread
The Head
Visitors: Last Poem
Barrow Sunrise
Catbird
from A Poetics of Hiroshima (2008)
History
It Came to Pass
Then: Ghost Story, 1944
The Pearl Museum
Museum Visitor Coda
Sleepers
Lullaby
Dr. Heim
Poetry
The Word
Anthem
Exercise
History
Illumination Graft
If
Sunlight
Autumn Rain, 1946
Iwo Dahlia
The Streetcar: August 6, 1945
A Poetics of Hiroshima
Shoah Train: Spring Coda
Soap
Rose
Fledgling
Blueberries Album
The Carriages
The Killers
The Light
Hiroshima Suite (2012)
The Candle: New Poems
Butterfly
1939: The Medal
Blutzeugtag: Blood Oath Day
Flame
Testimony of Christa Schröder
The Murderer
Interrogation
Civilization
Reminder
Sailing to Danzig
Otto Pressburger, 18, at Birkenau, 1942
Luger
Determination
Katyn, 1941: The Germans
Sport
Eyes
Avraham Tory: Diary from the Kovno Ghetto
Shekhinah
Definition for the New Bible
Bayer Co. to the Auschwitz Authorities
The Arrival Sonnet: Dagmar Ostermann
Prayer
Prayer
Absence
Night Parable
Sound
Volcano: Testimony of Albert Hartl
Hitler Street
Of Covenant
Axe
Gypsies
Exile Diptych
Nihilism Crematorium
Sonnet Ending in Trite Rhyme
Beauty
The Maggots Speak
Poem
The Candle
Kurt M. Regarding the Shofar
Voller Zug
Dandelions: The Survivor
Meditation
Insanity
Angel
Life
Art
Notes
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author