NEW RELEASE
EARTH AND CAVE
by
Michael Heller
Dos Madres Press is pleased to announce the publication of Earth and Cave
by Michael Heller, a memoir in prose and poetry written in the 1960s when
the author lived in Nerja, a small coastal village in Spain. Photographs
and drawings of Nerja’s ancient caves illustrate the book.
Earth and Cave, writes the poet Hugh Seidman, is “a wonderfully evocative
and luminous memoir… Heller’s meditation embodies the harsh life and
landscape of the indigenous population, along with the ever-lurking mystery
and aura of Nerja’s pre-historic caves….It brings us movingly into touch
with the most basic and human questions: how shall we relate to others
around us and to the place in which we live.”
The poet and critic Norman Finkelstein has described Michael Heller’s
memoir of childhood and religion, Living Root, as “a work of crossings,
hauntings, reanimations; a mighty golem walking the lost Jewish streets of
Brooklyn and Miami Beach.” The New York Times said of his poetry that it
has a “classical simplicity to its spare syllables…full of
ruminations…filled with illumination.”
Michael Heller is a poet, essayist and critic. Among his many books are
Uncertain Poetries: Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (Salt
Publishing, 2005), Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt
Publishing, 2003). Knowledge, In The Builded Place, Wordflow and Living
Root. His critical book on the Objectivist poets, Conviction’s Net of
Branches, received the Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of
America. He is the recipient of many awards including those from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, NYFA and the Fund For Poetry.
ISBN: 1-933675-17-9
Price: 12.95
Order direct from Dos Madres Press at http://dosmadres.com. For quantity
and discounts call 513-677-0504. Also available at Small Press
Distribution at http://www.spbbooks.org and from local and online bookstores.
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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
Collaborations with Ellen Fishman Johnson at:
http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html
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