Fiction
Non-Fiction
Poetry
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 Conviction's Net of Branches by Michael Heller
ISBN
1-881471-93-4 $20.00 US
| $28.00 CAN 128 pages
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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
Michael
Heller
Michael
Heller's libretto for the opera Benjamin, based on the
life of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter
Benjamin, has been
performed at the Philadelphia Fringe
Festival. He has been a member of the faculty of NYU's
American Language Institute since 1967 and
has
taught at The Naropa Institute, The New School, San
Francisco State, Notre Dame and other universities.
His
many awards include a New York State CAPS Fellowship, the
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of
America,
a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
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