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""""Søren Kierkegaard... feared that the advent of the camera would create one single portrait of us all, obliterating the treasure of our differences. Hayward being a worldly flâneur would seem to take issue with the eminent Dane.""""
VANITY FAIR
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""“Iconoclasm, breaking the image, the holy image, making it more holy in doing so….the man possesses an epic cool that is reflected in the work. Hayward’s universe becomes the ability to travel between and beyond forms, to hybridize, to traffic in aesthetic accident and unconscious inspiration…”""
Numero Cinq Magazine
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"Ah... there are democratic humanists, still! "
"artcritical" - David Cohen
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"“When Hayward creates, he steps aside. Hayward sets the world in motion like the deist god who winds the clock, but where it will go from there is anyone’s guess. Stepping out of the way, however, may be the most challenging artistic task of all. Don’t ask Hayward what he’s trying to accomplish. He says Asphalt, Muscle and Bone encapsulates “risk-taking… he knows he only wants to see things he’s never seen, but that’s about all he knows. “ Best American Poetry Blog. Alissa Fleck is a freelance writer whose work has been featured in the Huffington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Our Town Downtown, on Narrative.ly and more"
Best American Poetry
https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/the-best-american-poetry/
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Best American Poetry
https://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/the-best-american-poetry/
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"Enter, goddamit, Bill Hayward. Now go ahead…and see for yourself what a fucking artist can do when it comes to doing the unfucking impossible. Gordon Lish (Short story writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, professor- As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Rick Bass, and Richard Ford.)"
bill hayward - Paglia Press
http://www.billhayward.com
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"The Paris Review, Tin House magazine, O magazine, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review.“I’m still haunted by your powerful film. I feel very honored to have seen it!…” Jeanne McCulloch, writer of profiles, book reviews, interviews and personal essays for numerous publications including :"
The Paris Review (FORMER EDITOR), Tin House magazine, O magazine, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review.
http://www.billhayward.com