The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory [Hardcover]

The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature, and this essay collection provides the first extensive critical treatment of his varied career. This book 's multifaceted appraisal of his engagement with poetry as well as crucial ideas across various traditions establishes him as a preeminent writer among his contemporaries and younger generations, and as a major poet in any era.

Jon Curley is senior university lecturer in the humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Burt Kimmelman is professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

[This book] is an impressive and seminal body of original scholarship and highly recommended for academic library [and] Literary Studies in general, and Michael Heller supplemental studies lists in particular. Midwest Book Review

In The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller, Burt Kimmelman and Jon Curley have assembled a formidable chorus of voices to sing a love song, one of undeniable substance.... Jon Curley, Burt Kimmelman and their contributors offer a compelling assessment of Michael Heller's importance as a poet, but also of poetry as a way of repairing a defanged aesthetic. It is a moving tribute to the man, and the mission. American Book Review

Over the past half century, Michael Heller has quietly but emphatically established himself as one of the most masterful poets of a post-Objectivist traditionindeed, as one of the most thoughtful, lyrical, and philosophically profound of contemporary American poets. In major works of memoir and criticism, he has sensitively unravelled the nomadic origins of cultural and personal identity; in his poems he has limned a glittering constellation of powerful and emotionally rl“'