Wordflow: New and Selected Poems

by Michael Heller

Poetry. "Michael Heller has one of the most distinctive voices to be found in contemporary poetry. NEW AND SELECTED POEMS showcases a major talent that will engage the readers mind and imagination on every page. 'To the morning traceries are ascribed hope and promise of a day / whereby an intellection is erased from the ordinariness of truth. / The mind secures, in semblances, the yellowed clouds, thinner / and whiter toward the West, those legibilities consonant/with a self always imagined, always beyond reach. And so the sky / is sown with futurities, omniscient scatterings, thought's / anointments. We are the impossibles of these wants, unloosing / out grasp so that, briefly, the hope of love may leave a mark. / As in waking with her from sweetness, a memory of completeness / becomes an enabling myth, and one awaits the requisite fears / which fuel our constant devolutions, the gorgeous realm abiding.'"— Midwest Book Review

Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Michael Heller has published more than twenty-five volumes of poetry, essays, and memoir. His recent works include the poetry collection This Constellation Is a Name: Collected Poems 1965–2010, Dianoia, and Beckmann Variations and Other Poems, a work in prose and poetry. He is the recipient of numerous prizes, including awards from the Poetry Society of America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Fund for Poetry. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

[Gerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

He teaches us the metaphors which assert at once our unknowing and our need to state in some language what we don't know.