new from ahadada:
TWO NOVELLAS: MARBLE SNOWS & THE STUDY
by
Michael Heller
As with Michael Heller’s memoirs and essays, Two Novellas: Marble
Snows & The Study continues his project of poetry by other means. These
works, written some twenty years apart and drawing on such diverse
influences as Akutagawa’s short fictions, Joyce’s Portrait and Valery’s
Monsieur Teste, embody Heller’s exploration of language’s dramatic
relationship to character, fate and incident. Using radically different
narrative techniques, the two novellas are united by a persistent vision,
both anguished and comic, of a consciousness ransomed to words and yet,
in mysterious ways, seemingly redeemed by them.
From previous comment on Michael Heller’s work:
“In the subtle resources of this articulate poet’s testament, one voice again
speaks for all.”Robert Creeley
“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 heroic if impossible task.”The East Hampton Star
“...a questing intelligence, forever on the trail of the epistemological, the
‘flimsy beatitudes of order’”The New York Times Book Review
“At once grave and uplifting, the poems in Exigent Futures are serene
meditations on time, decay, and loss that recover from the ruin a repletion
that is also a recognition of our necessary incompleteness before the world
and language.”Jacket Magazine
Published by ahadada books
Publication date: 04/01/2009
ISBN 9780980887341
80 pages
Price: $15.95
Available from ahadada books
(http://www.ahadadabooks.com/ ) and SPD (http://www.spdbooks.org/)
Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers
(2009) available at SPD, Greenfield Distribution
(www.gfibooks.com), www. amazon.com and good
bookstores. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The
Study (ahadada press 2009) available from SPD,
amazon.com and from ahadadpress.com. Speaking The
Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen
(2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets,
Poetry and Poetics (2005) and Exigent Futures:
New and Selected Poems (2003) available at
www.saltpublishing.com, amazon.com and good
bookstores. Survey of work at
http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm
Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman
Johnson at
http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html
Recordings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.html
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