Horror Vacui: Poems"These are ambitious, moving poems, deft, panged, and stunning."--Dean Young "Existential chilliness, mourning, and dread find a uniquely compelling voice in Thomas Heise's poetry. . . ."--Alan Williamson "Horror Vacui offers an often vertiginous account of how death imposes [an] irresistible fact on minds bent on both accommodating and resisting this one inevitable yet impossible truth. . . . And it's this property of being barely held together that makes Horror Vacui so striking. . . . an extraordinary mood piece."--Ray McDaniel In his haunting debut collection Horror Vacui, Thomas Heise explores the fear of empty space, a mysterious and abiding absence that is a pronounced presence in this poet's lyrical voice. Thomas Heise holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of California at Davis and a PhD from New York University. Currently he teaches at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. |
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... Sarabande for their tireless support . And many thanks to Robert Balog , John Beckman , Chris Hosea , Sabrina O. Mark , Andrew Strombeck , Alan Williamson , and Dean Young . My father : these poems are you . I HORROR VACUI -you see ...
... unflagging determination , Heise honors and transforms experience in lyrics that elegize , exorcise , and renew . This is a remarkably elegant book of poems . Sarabande ISBN 1-932511-32 - b Books 51395 9781932 511321 Poetry / $ 13.95 .
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Obituary first draft | 11 |
Obituary revised | 27 |
The Orchard of Orange Trees | 35 |
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