Poetry. "Michael Heller has one of the most distinctive voices to be found in contemporary poetry. WORDFLOW: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS showcases a major talent that will engage the readers mind and imagination on every page. 'To the morning traceries are ascribed hope and promise of a day/whereby an intellection is erased from the ordinariness of truth. /The mind secures, in semblances, the yellowed clouds, thinner/and whiter toward the West, those legibilities consonant/with a self always imagined, always beyond reach. And so the sky/is sown with futurities, omniscient scatterings, thought's/anointments. We are the impossibles of these wants, unloosing/out grasp so that, briefly, the hope of love may leave a mark. /As in waking with her from sweetness, a memory of completeness/becomes an enabling myth, and one awaits the requisite fears/which fuel our constant devolutions, the gorgeous realm abiding'"--Midwest Book Review.
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Michael Heller has one of the most distinctive voices to be found in contemporary poetry. Wordflow: New And Selected Poems showcases a major talent that will engage the readers mind and imagination on every page. To the morning traceries are ascribed hope and promise of a day/whereby an intellection is erased from the ordinariness of truth. /The mind secures, in semblances, the yellowed clouds, thinner/and whiter toward the West, those legibilities consonant/with a self always imagined, always beyond reach. And so the sky/is sown with futurities, omniscient scatterings, thought's/anointments. We are the impossibles of these wants, unloosing/out grasp so that, briefly, the hope of love may leave a mark. /As in waking with her from sweetness, a memory of completeness/becomes an enabling myth, and one awaits the requisite fears/which fuel our constant devolutions, the gorgeous realm abiding. -- Midwest Book Review
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Michael Heller is a poet, essayist and critic. Among his many books are BECKMANN VARIATIONS AND OTHER POEMS, TWO NOVELLAS: MARBLE SNOWS & THE STUDY, ESCHATON, EARTH AND CAVE, EXIGENT FUTURES, WORDFLOW: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and Speaking the Estranged (essays on George Oppen). He wrote the libretto for the opera Benjamin, based on the life of Walter Benjamin. His awards include the NEH Poet/Scholar grant, the Di Castagnola Prize and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. He was born in 1937 in New York City where he now lives.
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