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LIVING ROOT: A MEMOIR Published by the State University of New York Press, September 2000. Orders: 1-607-277-2211, $18.50 plus postage or at bookstores online and otherwise. 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. "...splendidly preoccupied with God-racked issues, what it means to be a Jew, to live in that text..."--Denis Donoghue, author of The Practice of Reading." %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%