| Night Moves in Ohio Contributor(s): Heath, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 1646620488 ISBN-13: 9781646620487 Publisher: Finishing Line Press OUR PRICE: $14.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.11" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.15 lbs) 46 pages |
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| Publisher Description: When William Heath began writing poetry in the 1960s, James Wright hailed him as "one of the most brilliantly accomplished and gifted young poets to appear in the United States in quite some time." Now after an award-winning career as a novelist, historian, and literary critic, he has returned to his first love. Night Moves in Ohio vividly captures his memories of growing up in Poland, Ohio, a suburb of mobbed-up Youngstown, the city at the heart of the thriving Steel Valley but notorious as Little Chicago for its numerous gang-land bombings ("Youngstown tune-ups"). Heath's poems, by turns raunchy and poignant, evoke via his unblinking eye, ironic asides, and acute ear for the American idiom, the dangers and delights of a by-gone era. |
Contributor Bio(s): Heath, William: - William Heath has taught American literature and creative writing at Kenyon, Transylvania, Vassar, the University of Seville, and Mt. St. Mary's University, where the William Heath Award is given annually to the best student writer. His first novel The Children Bob Moses Led won the Hackney Literary Award; Blacksnake's Path was a History Book Club selection; Devil Dancer is a neo-noir novel set in Lexington, Kentucky; The Walking Man is a book of poems; William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest won Spur Awards for history and first nonfiction book; Conversations with Robert Stone is a collection of interviews. He and his wife Roser Caminals-Heath, a Catalan novelist, live in Frederick, Maryland. www.williamheathbooks.com |