Michael Heller

Michael D. Heller (born May 11, 1937) is an American poet, essayist and critic. Heller himself notes that:

Selected publications Accidental Center (Sumac Press, 1972); poetry Knowledge (1980); poetry Conviction's Net of Branches: Essays on the Objectivist Poets and Poetry (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985); criticism In the Builded Place (Coffee House Press, 1989); poetry Carl Rakosi: Man and Poet (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 1993); Heller is editor of this volume on the renowned Objectivist poet Wordflow: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House, 1997); poetry Living Root: A Memoir (SUNY Press, 2000); memoir of his youth in Brooklyn and Miami Beach, FL, that mixes in history regarding his family's hometown of Bialystock, Poland, and World War II Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing, 2003); poetry: gathers together poems from four of his major collections Uncertain Poetries : Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (Salt Publishing, 2005); essays Earth and Cave, (Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press, 2006) A Look at the Door with the Hinges Off, (Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press, 2006) Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the Work of George Oppen, (Cambridge UK: Salt Publishing, 2008); essay/memoir Eschaton, (Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House, 2009) Dianoia, (Brooklyn, NY: Nightboat Books, 2016) Telescope: Selected Poems, (New York, NY: NYRB Poets, 2019)