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Jerry Rothenberg has very kindly posted on his Poems and Poetics blog my "Ode to the Sky on the Esplanade of the New," a reworking of one of the longer odes from Segalen's Odes Suives de Thibet," with a short note describing my aims in the project of these "transpositions." The link is: http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/ -- 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); Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The Study (ahadada books, 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