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NEW OPPEN BOOK

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Michael Heller <[log in to unmask]>

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Poetryetc: poetry and poetics

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:34:55 -0400

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New from Salt Publishing:

SPEAKING THE ESTRANGED: ESSAYS ON THE WORK OF GEORGE OPPEN

by Michael Heller

Speaking the Estranged brings together the work 
by Michael Heller on the distinguished American 
Objectivist poet George Oppen 
(1908-1984).  Written over the past twenty years 
since Heller's first book on the Objectivists, 
Conviction's Net of Branches, these essays cover 
the range of Oppen's poetry and the ways it has 
been read at all stages of his career: from his 
overtly Objectivist roots through his abandonment 
of poetry for political activism in the thirties 
to his renewed poetic output after the 
1950s.  Heller's sustained and astute attention 
to Oppen, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 
in 1968, illuminates what many consider to be one 
of the most remarkable, complex and original 
bodies of work in twentieth-century literature.

Michael Heller’s engagement­personally, 
critically, and poetically­with George Oppen is 
without parallel.  Extending from his early 
correspondence with Oppen to his groundbreaking 
book on the Objectivists, Conviction’s Net of 
Branches, to the acute ethical probing of his own 
poetry, Heller has attempted to take the measure 
of Oppen’s achievement from every conceivable 
angle.  This new book, published in the year of 
Oppen’s centennial, displays the full fruits of 
one major poet’s encounter with another.
                 --Stephen Fredman, author of A 
Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the 
Jewish Dilemma of American Poetry and The 
Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition


Not just a great book of literary criticism, 
Michael Heller’s Speaking the Estranged is an 
exhilarating examination of those 20th century 
literary, political, and philosophical currents 
that have carried us into our tumultuous 
present.  As luminous a critic as he is a poet, 
Heller renews our engagement with “the mind 
operating in a marvel which contains the mind,” 
as George Oppen once put it.  Through Oppen, 
Heller locates us and brings us home.  When you 
finish this book, you won’t want to put it away.

                 --Forrest Gander, poet and 
author of Eye Against Eye and A Faithful Existence

MICHAEL HELLER is a poet, essayist and 
critic.  Recent books include Exigent Futures: 
New and Selected Poems, Uncertain Poetries, a 
collection of his essays, and Earth and Cave, a 
memoir of Spain in the 60s.  Among his many 
awards are the Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry 
Society of America and grants from the National 
Endowment, NYFA and The Fund for Poetry.

                                   Publisher: Salt Publishing (March 15, 2008)
·                                 Paperback: 152 pages
·                                 ISBN-10: 1844714403
·                                 ISBN-13: 978-1844714407
·                                 List Price:  $21:95
·                                 Available at 
<http://www.saltpublishing.com/>www.saltpublishing.com, 
www.amazon.com or at your bookstore.


·




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 the composer Ellen Fishman 
Johnson at http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html  

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