Sounds like the basis for a good book, if you have a personal spin on these
subjects. Good luck with it. Andrew
On 12 February 2010 06:00, Michael Heller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear friends and colleagues, I'll be presenting this seminar at the new
>> POETS HOUSE in Lower Manhattan at 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10280.
>> Dates and times below. For more information and precise directions, go to:
>> http://poetshouse.org/aboutstaff.htm.
>>
>>
>> On Modern Poetry: Public Seminars with Michael Heller
>> In two round-table discussions, poet and critic Michael Heller explores
>> major aspects of the origins and aesthetics of modern poetry. These seminars
>> are a wonderful way for newcomers as well as poetry experts to map the broad
>> and divergent landscape of modern American poetry.
>>
>> The Foundations of Modern and Contemporary Poetry with Michael Heller
>> Saturday, February 20, 2:00–5:00pm
>> $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members;
>> pre-registration is not required
>> Readings for this first session will include the poetry and prose of
>> Whitman, Dickinson, Pound, Frost, Williams and Stevens, with reference to
>> the intellectual and cultural environment in which modern poetry arose.
>> “No Ideas but in Things”: Developments, Diversities, Dispersions,
>> Disavowals with Michael Heller
>> Saturday, February 27, 2:00–5:00pm
>> $10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members
>> Readings for this session include Zukofsky, Oppen, Moore, Niedecker,
>> Harlem Renaissance poets, Olson, Black Mountain and Beat Poetry. We will
>> discuss traceries, inflections and influences of the early modernist poets
>> on the poetry that came after, with some reflections on shape and form in
>> contemporary poetry.
>>
>> Michael Heller is a poet, essayist and critic. Among his many books are
>> the poetry collections Eschaton, Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems and
>> In the Builded Place as well as the memoir, Living Root. His most recent
>> critical book is Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen.
>> He taught for many years at New York University.
>> []
>>
>>
>> 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 at
>> http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/162/41/. 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<http://www.thing.net/%7Egrist/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
>>
>
> 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 at
> http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/162/41/. 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<http://www.thing.net/%7Egrist/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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Andrew
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