WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25^TH , POETRY READING AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
MICHAEL HELLER READING FROM HIS NEW BOOK, /THIS CONSTELLATION IS A NAME:
COLLECTED POEMS 1965-2010/
7 PM RESEARCH HALL
Michael Heller has published over twenty volumes of poetry, essays,
memoir and fiction. His newest book is /This Constellation Is A Name:
Collected Poems 1965-2010/ (Nightboat Books, 2012).Recent works include
/Eschaton/, /Beckmann Variations & other poems, Exigent Futures/ and
/Living Root: A Memoir/.His many awards include the NEH Poet/Scholar
Grant, the Di Castagnola Prize, The Fund for Poetry and New York
Foundation on the Arts Fellowships.He lives in New York City.
*"There is a classic largeness to these poems, whether of means or of
reference--a consummately civilized response to our time that makes the
intimate and the physical still primary despite the generalizing chaos
Heller confronts so movingly."--Robert Creeley*
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*"...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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Home page: michaelhellerpoetry.com
Recent books: This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010 (Nightboat Books, 2012);Beckmann Variations & Other Poems (Shearsman, 2010); Eschaton (Talisman, 2009); Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the work of George Oppen (Salt, 2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (Salt, 2005); Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2003). Available at bookstores, SPD and at Amazon.com
Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson: This Art Burning and other poetry, Benjamin (a music-theater work based on the life of Walter Benjamin), go to: http://www.efjcomposer.com/efjcomposer/Welcome.html and for excerpts visit Ellen's Youtube videos at: http://www.youtube.com/user/efjcomposer
Michael Heller PennSound page: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.php
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