Creator Bio
Michael Heller
b. 1937
Born in New York City, Michael Heller is a poet and critic, associated with the Objectivist school. He has taught at New York University. Heller also wrote the libretto for an opera based on the life of Walter Benjamin. He has received the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize, a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship, and an award from the Fund for Poetry.
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Lecture with Celan
How many know
the number of creatures is endless?
So many know,
only a gasp in their questions is possible.
All that fullness—
of wounds that won’t scar over.
pain’s grillework
persisting in…