Telescope : Selected Poems - Michael Heller

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Telescope

Selected Poems

By: Michael Heller

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Paperback | 8 January 2019

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304 Pages

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17.5 x 11.5 x 2.7

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An original selection of work by one of America's greatest living poets.

For over fifty years, Michael Heller has been building one of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry. A poet who digs in and thinks hard, a poet who, in the tradition of George Oppen, makes the abstract concrete and the concrete abstract, Heller is a writer who returns again and again to his major themes the better to rethink them anew. Those themes include the political and natural worlds and the reponsibility and the freedom of the poet, and Heller often explores them through encounters with key figures in literature and art, such as the painter Max Beckmann and Walter Benjamin. A Jewish poet, a Buddhist poet, a profoundly reflective poet, a deeply sensual poet, Michael Heller is simply one of the best poets writing today. This new selection of his work, the first in many years, provides a perfect vantage from which to contemplate his achievement.

Industry Reviews

"As Wallace Stevens explored the shifting relationship between imagination and reality, so Heller explores the shifting and often uneasy relationship between language and that which it purports to name. Other poets frequently touch upon this problem, but over fifty years Heller has developed a body of work that moves from groping toward the ways in which language helps distinguish self from other to a more sophisticated grasp of how the world is and isn't text." --William Doreski, The Harvard Review

"In a poetic generation that has frequently settled for small answers, Heller's work insists upon the largest questions." --Rain Taxi

"Over the past half century, Michael Heller has quietly but emphatically established himself as one of the most masterful poets of a post-Objectivist tradition--indeed, as one of the most thoughtful, lyrical, and philosophically profound of contemporary American poets." --Mark Scroggins

"To conceive otherwise, ' says Michael Heller, is the poet's essential task. No matter if the poem is brief or extended, the line long or short, the setting Manhattan or the Colorado Rockies, a lost Bialystok or an imagined Tibet--what arises from the page is an action of mind, an asking, questing trajectory, tracked with uncanny surety by movement of the poetic line. This is no language-locked adventure, but an impassioned, ethical listening to the mind-and the world-at work in words." -Susan Tichy

"Tone perfect poems--the tone, the scale, note by note, interval by interval--attack on the 'gods of ennui and loneliness.'" --George Oppen

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