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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... flowers fastened in the hair ] without your wool coat of holes I hung [ decaying . ] from a low bough to dry and kneeled below ? [ I thought light formed branches wrong . And I ask , did you hear the switch break from the birch ? [ And ...
... flowers . I have remained here for a long time thinking of you . This photo shows the fish market , scales iridescent as sliced opals . Recall that scene in The Unbearable Lightness of Being : Tomas before the gray wall : Where is your ...
... flowers . I spit on my hands , hang them downward . I lower my window as the wind flows inward . I follow the wind out to light to willow . This willow is strong , an unbuilt shelter . Its leaves hanging down are not strips of paper ...
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Obituary first draft | 11 |
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The Orchard of Orange Trees | 35 |
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