THE OBJECTIVIST CONSTELLATION & BEYOND
Poetry Reading and talk on October 1^st 2013, 6 PM
Seminar & Recording Session with Michael Heller. Introduced by Patrick
Pritchett
Almost since he began publishing his poetry in the late
nineteen-sixties, Michael Heller has been thinking and writing about the
Objectivist poets, in particular George Oppen whom he knew and
corresponded with for nearly 20 years.His presentation will focus on the
powerful and rigorous contribution of their work and its influence on
contemporary poetry, including his own.He will also read from his most
recent publication, /This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems
1965-2010/.
_Woodberry poetry __room__, Lamont Library, __room__330,
__Harvard__U__niversity___
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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); 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
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