The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller (eBook, ePUB)

A Nomad Memory
Redaktion: Curley, Jon; Kimmelman, Burt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611476897
• Artikelnr.: 43809482

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Burt Kimmelman, Foreword
Jon Curley, Introduction: Charting a Nomadic Course: Michael Heller's
Dispersions of Tradition
Tyrone Williams, "'To place a word on it': burning maps, drawing
networks":Michael Heller, This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems
1965-2010
Henry Weinfield, "Truth Also Is the Pursuit of It": Heller's Encounter with
Oppen
Eric Hoffman, On Michael Heller's "Stanzas Without Ozymandias"
Romana Huk, "Writing in the danger zone": Michael Heller's poetics of
naming
Hélène Aji, Why Walter Benjamin? A Brief Note on Two Operas
Elisabeth Joyce, "Poetics of Remembrance": Michael Heller as Memorial
Candle
Stephen Fredman, Judaism as Loss in the Poetry of Michael Heller
David Herd, 'Poetry on abandoned ground': Michael Heller's Eschaton
Norman Finkelstein, Afterword: Michael Heller: The Philosophical Poet In
the Age of the Simulacrum
Burt Kimmelman and Jon Curley, "Interview with Michael Heller"
Works Cited (for volume)
Works Cited (works by Michael Heller)
Words Cited (articles, reviews, essays about Michael Heller)