Telescope

Praise for Michael Heller:

"Like the Renaissance and Neo-classical poets who speculated on the Great Chain of being and microcosm-macrocosm relationships, Heller communicates a vision of human life as related to natural processes of great intricacy and magnitude. He strains his mind and the reader's to find the relationships between our experience and these processes in the material world, but the sense of magnificence is worth the strain." --Parnassus: Poetry in Review

"He's a somewhat latter-day Jewish Yeats, full of terror and joy, trying to make some sense of the chaotic destructiveness of the 20th century in lyric poetry. It is a heroic if impossible task." --The East Hampton Star

"His is a questing intelligence, forever on the trail of the epistemological, the 'flimsy beatitudes of order'" --The New York Times Book Review

"There is in these poems a strange Promethean struggle between blind force and will. Heller is a pioneer." --Ironwood