by William Heyen
American Poets Continuum Series
William Heyen's Crazy Horse In Stillness is a powerful
collection of more than 400 poems that explores the collision
of North America's two civilizations-one moving in a cyclical,
visionary rhythm of primal timelessness; the other racing in a
linear, time-driven thrust to fulfill its "manifest destiny."
This collision transpires through the lives and mythic personas
of General George Armstrong Custer and the Sioux warrior-mystic
Crazy Horse, both of whom believe themselves messianic, embodying
both the visionary and the historical.
Being
Curly
finds himself
gazing
up at himself
from
the depth of a pond.
I
am this, then,
he
repeats to himself.
The
boy in the pond
mimics
his every face,
but
how can he mind?
Is
this confusion,
or
is it clear
that
water is air,
air
is water?
His
watery twin,
here, there,
looks
up in wonder
into
this other.
©
BOA Editions, Ltd 1996
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 1-880238-29-2
Price: $15.00
Publishing Date: January 1996
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