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Heyen, William, 1940-

Pig notes & dumb music : prose on poetry / by William Heyen.

1st ed.

Rochester, N.Y. : BOA Editions, 1998.

189 pages ; 23 cm.

An anthology of essays and poems. On the subject of modern poetry he writes, "Old women with children do not live in it. / It does not harvest thought or associate with farmers. / It does not serve in the army, or follow a story. / It revels in skewed cubes, elliptical appositions."

American reader series ; v. 2

American reader series ; v. 2.

Prose poems.

Prose poems.

Pig notes and dumb music

Includes index.

The Bear -- The Redwoods -- Scat -- The Cop -- The Goose -- Sacred Text -- On a Line by Whitman -- Rilke: A Little Stone -- The Out-there -- Seneca Country -- Stats -- The Past Tense -- The Village -- R.I.P. -- Occasions -- Diamond -- Pupil -- Process -- Polariscope -- Blue Diamonds -- Appraisal -- A Dream of Hell -- Willingly -- Audience -- Sunflower -- Scareraven -- Meaning -- Happening -- The Goldfish Question -- Gold -- Laws -- Dumb Music -- Genius -- Mush -- Old Sam Peabody -- Pickerel -- Fish -- The Father of My Country -- The End -- Evergreen -- Notes Toward a Note on "Notes Toward" -- The Wool -- A Note on Romanticism -- Castaneda -- Translation Ambush -- Sycamore & Ash -- Open Letter to the SUNY Brockport College Community -- The Host: An Address to the Faculty at SUNY Brockport -- An Open Letter to Mr. Ehrlich's Students -- Silver Maple -- Trance -- Tongues -- Cereal Craft -- New Moon -- The Other -- The Idea -- Ellipsis -- At the Gate.

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