October 16th, 2000 | |||
Hemingway, You Old Bear
by Joseph Heywood
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Stubborn blueberries cling wild, low-blue in bushy clumps Clutching for purchase on hardtack sand along the Fox, which Ernest- Black-Hearted Hemingway called the Big Two-Hearted An act of disinformation, Misdirection under the rubric of art, So-called poetic license, I say bull, His only thought: Himself. Bastard.
I hear the great ghost grunting in the horsetail ferns
Two hours, thirteen fat fish,
In Havana long ago,
You can't fool me, Hem,
About Joseph Heywood"Born in Rhinebeck New York, grew up in a USAF family, living all over U.S. and in Italy as well. First year of high school in Norman, Oklahoma and final three in Rudyard, Michigan in the eastern Upper Peninsula. I graduated from Michigan State University in 1965 with BA in journalism. There I played lacrosse on the univesity club team and was one of the tri-captains in my senior year. After five years in the AF where I was a navigator in a KC-135 tanker. Vietnam vet. After the AF I joined The Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo in 1970; I retired in 1999 as Vice President of Worldwide Public Relations. I have fished in Montana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming, but in none of the hallowed places in those states. Most of my trouting has been confined to Michigan, where there is ample opportunity and plenty of stubborn and wily fish. I wrote and published three novels while working in the corporate world and now write fiction full time. My fourth novel was published earlier this month by Lyons Press and my next novel will also be published by Lyons sometime next spring. I am not a great fisherman, but I continue to learn, which makes it a wonderful passion. My other passion is ice hockey, namely the Detroit Red Wings." His latest novel is The Snowfly. He lives in Portage, Michigan, and claims the Pere Marquette as his 'home water.'
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