In the Builded Place

“Michael Heller’s poetry is the song of metaphysical narrative. In his work the speculative ambiguities of epistemology modulate productively with faceted concretions of felt life. The generous and powerful energies in these poems track the potential transformations inhering in ‘flimsy beatitudes of order,’ (from the title poem) whose possibilities haunt and illuminate the entire book.” —Armand Schwerner