Joyce Carol Oates once called William Heyen a "remarkable poet," noting that he "writes with the wild, radiant audacity of the visionary."  W. S. Merwin praised "the urgency and authenticity" and the "plain directness" of Heyen's voice. This same voice rings true again this collection, Heyen's eighteenth volume of poetry.  Confessions is a book not to be missed!

Heyen, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940, is 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: Erika: Poems of the Holocaust, The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990 (both Time-Being Books), Diana, Charles & the Queen,  Crazy Horse in Stillness (both from BOA Editions, Ltd), which won the 1997 National Small Press Book Award for Poetry and Shoah Train which was chosen as one of five finalists in poetry for the 2004 National Book Awards.

paperback / 75 pages / ISBN: 0-9745995-5-7 / $15.95

publication date: January 2006