The poetry and poetics of Michael Heller : a nomad memory / edited by Jon Curley and Burt Kimmelman ; contributors, Hélène Aji [and ten others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curley, Jon, editor.

Kimmelman, Burt, 1947- editor.

Aji, Hélène, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heller, Michael, 1937---Criticism and interpretation.

Heller, Michael.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Madison, New Jersey : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>This collection is an in-depth exploration of a central contemporary American poet with links to many key literary movements. The book provides a sweeping intellectual survey of modernism, postmodernism, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century American poetry.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "'To Place a Word on It': Burning Maps, Drawing Networks"; 2 "Truth Also Is the Pursuit of It"; 3 On Michael Heller's "Stanzas Without Ozymandias"; 4 "Writing in the Danger Zone"; 5 Why Walter Benjamin?; 6 "Poetics of Remembrance"; 7 Judaism as Loss in the Poetry of Michael Heller; 8 "Poetry on Abandoned Ground"; Afterword; Interview with Michael Heller; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61147-689-5