*« The Objectivists Today »
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*A Seminar with American poet **Michael HELLER*
Organized by Hélène AJI for ELAN (Etudes en Littérature anglaise et
d'Amérique du Nord, CREA, EA 370)
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Bâtiment V, salle V 411 (4^e
étage).
*14h-15h : « Now-Time Poetics: Under the Sign of Benjamin »*
Keynote lecture by Michael HELLER (New York University) :.
*15h-16h : « A Few Modes of Objectivist Poetics »*
Round table moderated by Brigitte FÉLIX (Université Paris 8
Vincennes-Saint-Denis) with Fiona McMahon (Université de Bourgogne),
Xavier KALCK (Université Paris-Sorbonne) and Hélène AJI (Université
Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) :
16h-16h30 : Coffee and cookies
*16h30-17h30 : Bilingual poetry reading celebrating Michael Heller's
/This Constellation is a Name, Collected Poems 1965-2010/ (New York :
Nightboat Books, 2012).*
Michael Heller has published over twenty volumes of poetry, essays and
memoir. His newest book is /This Constellation Is A Name: Collected
Poems 1965-2010/. Other recent works include: /Eschaton/ (2009), a book
of poems, and /Beckmann Variations & Other Poems/, a work in prose and
poetry (2010). His collection of essays on George Oppen, /Speaking the
Estranged,/ was published in 2008. An expanded edition was published in
2012.
His many awards and honors include prizes from The New School for Social
Research, Poetry in Public Places, the New York State CAPSFellowship in
Poetry, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of
America, a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship, the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Fund for Poetry. For many years, he
was on the faculty of New York University and has taught at The Naropa
University, The New School, San Francisco State, Notre Dame and other
universities. His papers are collected in the Stanford University Libraries.
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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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