"William Heyen's music and meditations continue to amaze. I've now read
and absorbed all the poems of A Poetics of Hiroshima. I am not ready
to write anything about them, except to express my awe."--Cynthia Ozick
"A remarkable poet in whom the 'visionary' and the unblinkingly
'historical' are dramatically meshed. He writes with the wild, radiant
audacity of the visionary; yet his eye and ear are sharp,
unsparing."--Joyce Carol Oates
The author of eighteen books of poetry, William Heyen has been
awarded Fulbright, NEA, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and
Guggenheim fellowships and prizes. His Shoah Train was a National Book
Award finalist.