Research Catalog

Title

Telescope : selected poems / by Michael Heller.

Author

Heller, Michael, 1937-

Publication

• New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

291 pages; 18 cm.

Summary

"An original selection of work by one of America's greatest living poets. For over fifty years, Michael Heller has been building one of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry. A poet who digs in and thinks hard, a poet who, in the tradition of George Oppen, makes the abstract concrete and the concrete abstract, Heller is a writer who returns again and again to his major themes the better to rethink them anew. Those themes include the political and natural worlds and the reponsibility and the freedom of the poet, and Heller often explores them through encounters with key figures in literature and art, such as the painter Max Beckmann and Walter Benjamin. A Jewish poet, a Buddhist poet, a profoundly reflective poet, a deeply sensual poet, Michael Heller is simply one of the best poets writing today. This new selection of his work, the first in many years, provides a perfect vantage from which to contemplate his achievement"--

Series Statement

New York Review Books / Poets

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• New York Review Books poets.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• American poetry
• POETRY / American / General

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• from A Look at the door with the hinges off (2006): Poems from the mid-1960s. 7 praises ; Ok everybody, let's do the Mondrian stomp ; One on the muse ; Fragment ; A look at the door with the hinges off -- from Earth and cave (2006): Poems from 1966. "White plumed reeds" ; Buriana beach ; Dream -- from Accidental center. "In the difficulties of the rough seas" ; Pressure: ; Three bar reflections on John Coltrane ; Paragraphs -- from Knowledge (1979). Knowledge ; Bialystok stanzas ; After Montale ; In the park ; At Albert's landing ; Postulates ; Speculum Mortis ; Interminglings ; Stanzas on Mount Elbert ; Mourning by the sea -- from In the Building Place (1989). With a telescope in the Sangre de Cristos ; Father Parmenides ; Moon study ; In the builded place ; Well-dressing rounds ; Mythos of Logos ; After Plato ; Homer timeless ; Photograph of a man holding his penis ; Today, somewhat after Dante ; Heteroglossia on fifty-third ; Montaigne ; Sestina: Off-season ; Statue: Jardin du Luxemborg ; On a line from Baudelaire ; Some anthropology ; The American Jewish clock ; In a dark time, on his Grandfather ; For Uncle Nat ; Accidental meeting with an Israeli poet ; Palestine ; Mamaloshon ; Constellations of waking ; Water, heads, Hamptons ; In the mountains, lines of Chinese poetry: ; Born in water ; In elegiacs, birds of Florida -- from Wordflow. Lecture with Celan ; Stanzas at Maresfield gardens ; At the Muse's tomb ; In Paris ; Thinking of Mary ; Parents' grave ; One day, what you said to yourself ; She ; Sag harbor, Whitman, as if an ode --
• from Exigent futures (2003). Cyclical ; "We can only wish valeat quantum valere potest." ; Autobiographia ; Winter notes, East end -- from Eschaton (2009). On a phrase of Milosz's ; My city ; Diasporic conundrums ; Bandelette de Torah ; The chronicle poet ; Four London windows ; Like prose bled through a city ; Creeks in Berkeley ; At word-brink ; A dialogue of some importance ; Exercise on Schiele's Die Junge Frau ; Homan's etchings ; Report on the dispatches ; Sarajevo and Somalia ; The assumption ; In irons ; Le Dernier portrait ; Stanzas without Ozymandias ; Eschaton ; Ordinariness of the soul ; An interpellation ; The age of the poet ; Letter and dream of Walter Benjamin ; Commentary is the concept of order for the spiritual world -- from Beckmann variations and other poems (2010). Into the heart of the real ; Orders ; Falling man ; Triptych ; Mother asleep ; Within the open landscapes -- from This constellation is a name (2012). Maazel conducts "Arirang," in Pyongyang (26 February 2008) ; After Baudelaire's Le Gouffre ; Afikomens ; Ode to the sky on the Esplanade of the new ; The form -- from Dianoia (2016). Mappah ; Abide with me a moment ; Dianoia ; Notes on notes ; There ; Internet enabled ; Visit ; Canonical ; My grand canal ; Fatigue God ; Wrathful deity posing as the physical object of desire ; High basin -- New poems. Back among them ; The whole life ; Re-Searches ; Colloquia ; Our times.

Call Number

JFC 20-548

ISBN

• 9781681374062
• 1681374064
• 9781681374079
• 1681374072

LCCN

• 2019017899
• 40029601408

OCLC

1078886820

Author

Heller, Michael, 1937- author.

Title

Telescope : selected poems / by Michael Heller.

Publisher

New York : New York Review Books, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review Books / Poets

New York Review Books poets.

Other Form:

Online version: Heller, Michael, 1937- author. Telescope New York : New York Review Books, 2019 9781681374079 (DLC) 2019018919

Other Standard Identifier

40029601408

Research Call Number

JFC 20-548