Conviction's Net of Branches

	Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Film MEB Authors Press Events Distribution Booksense Contacts	Conviction's Net of Branches by Michael Heller ISBN 1-881471-93-4 $20.00 US \| $28.00 CAN 128 pages Find the book on Amazon > The first book devoted to the work of the Objectivist Poets: Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Lorine Niedecker. Though not a historical study, Heller explores the modernist roots of the Objectivist tradition and illuminates the meaning and importance of these poets not only for writers and scholars but for poetry itself as significant knowledge of our world. ...a questing intelligence, forever on the trail of the epistemological, the 'flimsy beatitudes of order. The New York Times Book Review He's somewhat a latter-day Jewish Yeats, full of terror and joy, trying to make some sense of the chaotic destructiveness of the 20th century in lyric poetry. It is an heroic if impossible task. The East Hampton Star ...ideas juxtaposed with imagery of earth and sea, and nature becomes a symbol of human drama--passionate, unbridled. Publishers Weekly a singular address to unknowingness. Confrontation

Conviction's Net of Branches by Michael Heller
ISBN 1-881471-93-4 $20.00 US | $28.00 CAN 128 pages

Find the book on Amazon >

The first book devoted to the work of the Objectivist Poets: Louis Zukofsky,
George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Lorine Niedecker. Though not a
historical study, Heller explores the modernist roots of the Objectivist tradition
and illuminates the meaning and importance of these poets not only for writers
and scholars but for poetry itself as significant knowledge of our world.

...a questing intelligence, forever on the trail of the epistemological, the
'flimsy beatitudes of order. The New York Times Book Review

He's somewhat a latter-day Jewish Yeats, full of terror and joy, trying to make
some sense of the chaotic destructiveness of the 20th century in lyric poetry.
It is an heroic if impossible task. The East Hampton Star

...ideas juxtaposed with imagery of earth and sea, and nature becomes a
symbol of human drama--passionate, unbridled. Publishers Weekly