by
William Heyen
American Reader Series
William Heyen's prose and poetry collection, Pig Notes &
Dumb Music, locates the central questions that all creative
writers need to engage as they write themselves. Drawing from
parables, stories, vignettes, and poems writtem over the past
twenty years, Heyen helps free us toward the inexhaustable sources
of our imaginations.
Subject
Matter
You're riding a horse, but pretty much giving
it its rein. You are
bourne
along by it, can shift your posture in the saddle, can look around
you
to remark on the landscape, bushes & trees galloping by—
are those
honeysuckles
or redtwig dogwoods, maples or box elders?— but from
long
habit & imagined necessity you stay on the horse with your
feet in
the
stirrups. You are riding along on your steed named "Subject"
when,
wham,
an overhanging branch takes you out. You see stars &
wonder,
later,
what galaxy it was that you visited, and what in the hell happened
to
your
horse.
©BOA
Editions, Ltd 1998
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 1-880238-56-x
Price: $12.50
Publishing Date: January 1998
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