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William Helmuth Heyen, poet and essayist, was born in Brooklyn, New York. His boyhood home was in suburban Long Island. Heyen's genealogy is important because he often writes about his relatives--past...
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Critical Essay by John T. Irwin
William Heyen's Depth of Field is a brilliant first volume with a broad, coherent, and deeply moving design. The book is divided into two sections, The Spirit of...
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Critical Essay by Tom Marshall
William Heyen's Noise in the Trees makes a new myth out of the circumstances of his own past and that of Long Island. Earlier American literature enters into this...
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Critical Essay by Peter Stitt
In trying to make poetry out of such a subject as the Nazi atrocities, William Heyen has taken a tremendous artistic and emotional risk. That he has, on the whole, pulled...
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Critical Essay by Sandra Mcpherson
The significant. The love for humanity. These are Heyen's priorities…. And another one: to fight "this unfathomable oceanic ignorance of ourselv...
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Critical Essay by Pamela S. Rasso
William Heyen's The Swastika Poems run the gamut of general to specific: they are mostly about war and the Nazi atrocities in World War II, but they are also a...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth Maclean
[The] resonances of Nature are very much at the center of [William Heyen's] consciousness—built, it seems, on the conflict between it and his sense of a...
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Critical Essay by Hayden Carruth
History is the problem always. It attaches itself to us, sucks our lives, yet it continually fades; we despise it, fear it, yet cannot do without it; and we continuall...
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Critical Essay by Vernon Young
I read Long Island Light with growing disbelief, soon exchanged for acceptance, that in a single volume there could be so many poems celebrating, with perfect pitch, the...
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Critical Essay by Robert Phillips
William Heyen's The Swastika Poems … is one of those rarities, a book of poems which is a book, and not just a collection of picked-up pieces. Indeed, i...
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Critical Essay by Dave Smith
In some ways, Long Island Light … might be seen as a manual for how to do the variations of Modern American Poetry with enormous success…. [One] finds a flex...
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Critical Essay by Peter Stitt
The impulse behind William Heyen's new book, Long Island Light: Poems and a Memoir, is both personal and sincere, and for the first several pages it seems that thi...
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Critical Essay by John R. Reed
[Every] now and then a poet sets out to fashion his own atmosphere. It is an enormous risk. William Heyen has taken that risk and succeeded. Long Island Light must be co...
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William Heyen
Critical Essay by John T. Irwin
