Conviction's Net of Branches: Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry

Conviction's Net of Branches: Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry

by Michael Heller
Conviction's Net of Branches: Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry

Conviction's Net of Branches: Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry

by Michael Heller

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Overview


Nonfiction. Poetics. Literary Criticism. The first book devoted to the work of the Objectivist Poets: Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Lorine Niedecker. Though not a historical study, Heller explores the modernist roots of the Objectivist tradition and illuminates the meaning and importance of these poets not only for writers and scholars but for poetry itself as significant knowledge of our world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781881471936
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Publication date: 03/01/2002
Pages: 126
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author


Michael Heller is a poet, essayist and critic. Among his many books are BECKMANN VARIATIONS AND OTHER POEMS, TWO NOVELLAS: MARBLE SNOWS & THE STUDY, ESCHATON, EARTH AND CAVE, EXIGENT FUTURES, WORDFLOW: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, and Speaking the Estranged (essays on George Oppen). He wrote the libretto for the opera Benjamin, based on the life of Walter Benjamin. His awards include the NEH Poet/Scholar grant, the Di Castagnola Prize and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. He was born in 1937 in New York City where he now lives.
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