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William Heyen


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Brooklyn, The United States

William Heyen was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1940, and raised in Suffolk County by German immigrant parents. His graduate degrees are from Ohio University. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Germany, he has been honored with NEA, Guggenheim, American Academy of Arts & Letters and other awards. His poetry has appeared in the Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper’s, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and in hundreds of other magazines and anthologies. His Crazy Horse in Stillness won the Small Press Book Award in 1997; Shoah Train: Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2004. Heyen is Professor of English/Poet in Residence Emeritus at his undergraduate alma mater, SUNY Brockport.
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Average rating: 4.05 · 304 ratings · 36 reviews · 215 distinct works
Crazy Horse in Stillness

4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions
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Shoah Train

4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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September 11, 2001: America...

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A Poetics of Hiroshima

3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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Erika: Poems of the Holocaust

4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1984 — 10 editions
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Lord Dragonfly: Five Sequences

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1981 — 9 editions
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The Swastika Poems

4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1977 — 5 editions
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Generation of 2000: Contemp...

4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1984
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Pig notes & dumb music: Pro...

4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
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Pterodactyl Rose: Poems of ...

3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions
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