The Candle: Poems of Our 20th Century Holocausts -- William Heyen

<p><i>The Candle </i>is a record, unlike any other in literature, of an American poet's staring into the central atrocities of our Twentieth Century, of his struggle against soul-sickness as he attempts, over almost fifty years, by way of despised and barbaric poetry (in Theodor Adorno's terms), to find ways to realize (make real), to understand, and to remember.</p><p><b>William Heyen </b>is a former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American literature in Germany. <i>Crazy Horse in Stillness </i>won the Small Press Book Award, <i>Shoah Train </i>was a National Book Award finalist, and <i>A Poetics of Hiroshima </i>was a selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> William Heyen<br><b>Publisher:</b> Etruscan Press<br><b>Published:</b> 11/01/2016<br><b>Pages:</b> 352<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.90lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780990322177<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>William Heyen: William Heyen was born in Brooklyn, NY. A former Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American literature in Germany, he has won NEA, Guggenheim, the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and other awards. His graduate degrees are from Ohio University, and SUNY recently awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. He edited <i>September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond</i> (Etruscan Press). His work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and anthologies. His <i>Crazy Horse in Stillness</i> won