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


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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.

Author: Michael Heller
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Published: 01/02/2003
Pages: 126
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.70w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9781881471936
ISBN10: 1881471934
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General

About the Author
Michael Heller's libretto for the opera Benjamin, based on the life of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, has been performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. He has been a member of the faculty of NYU's American Language Institute since 1967 and has taught at The Naropa Institute, The New School, San Francisco State, Notre Dame and other universities. His many awards include a New York State CAPS Fellowship, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

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