If anyone is in the neighborhood:
AT THE TATTERED COVER
(Cherry Creek Branch)
2955 East First Avenue
Aug 29th at 7:30 PM
MICHAEL HELLER
reading from
LIVING ROOT: A MEMOIR
(Published by the State University of New York Press, August 2000)
Advance notice on Living Root:
"In the subtle resources of this articulate poet's testament, one voice
again speaks for all" --Robert Creeley
"...one of the most touching memoirs of growing up Jewish in America....he
proves that American English may be the major 'Jewish' language of the late
twentieth century."
--Sander Gilman, The University of Chicago
"What a gift, this Living Root of Michael Heller's--a story to add to
Kazin's A Walker in the City and Roth's Patrimony....at any moment a
paragraph will open far afield--to the Babel of language, to kaballah, to
Walter Benjamin--or an interwoven poem will give the autobiography lyric
depth and concentration..."-- John Felstiner, author of Paul Celan: Poet,
Survivor, Jew.
"...a work of crossings, hauntings, reanimations: a mighty golem walking
the lost Jewish streets of Brooklyn and Miami Beach." --Norman Finkelstein,
author of The Ritual of the New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary
Literature.
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