Shoah Train Poems by William Heyen Shoah Train was chosen as one of five finalists in poetry for the 2004 National Book Awards.
Over the decades Heyen has most often dreamed of, studied, and written about the Holocaust. His ground-breaking collection The Swastika Poems (1977) was revised and expanded to Erika (1984). Thirteen more of these poems appear in Falling from Heaven (1991). Now, Shoah Train collects more than seventy poems written over the last dozen years, lyrics of "discipline and honesty and courage and restraint," as Archibald MacLeish described The Swastika Poems. Experiencing the new poems in Shoah Train the reader will find themselves in the voice-presence of one of our most important poets.
William Heyen was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940. Currently Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at SUNY Brockport, he has been awarded Fulbright, NEA, American Academy of Arts & Letters, Guggenheim, and other fellowships and prizes. His work has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, The Nation, and The Ontario Review. Heyen is the author of several collections of poetry, including Erika: Poems of the Holocaust, The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990 (both Time-Being Books), Diana, Charles & the Queen, and Crazy Horse in Stillness (both from BOA Editions, Ltd), which won the 1997 National Small Press Book Award for Poetry.
paperback / 96 pages / ISBN: 0-9718-228-7-5 / $15.95 |
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