Lecture with Celan

Michael Heller

1997

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 the memory.
What sets one free
within the sign and blesses the wordflow
without barrier?
Not literature, which is only for those
at home in the…
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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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