A Poetics of Hiroshima
Published on 1. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
90 pages
978-0-9797450-5-8 (ISBN)
Description
In A Poetics of Hiroshima, William Heyen has broken through to face full square what has been working its way to surface through several of his highly-praised earlier books including Shoah Train (Etruscan Press, 2003): the interfusions, in art and in our desire for art, of beauty and atrocity. Heyen's lines claw their ways into an aesthetics of formful but obscene sound that may now be our century's only viable, or possible, home.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9797450-5-8 (9780979745058)
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Person
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. Heyen is the author of several collections of poetry, including Shoah Train (Etruscan Press).