Michael Heller. Exigent Futures: re...

Michael Heller. Exigent Futures: recent and Selected Poems. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2003 166 pp $1695
Michael Heller's thirty-plus-year poetic career demonstrates the continuing viability of Objectivism. Indeed, Heller has written compelling criticism forward Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff, and, in the two the brief poems and lengthy sequences of Exigent Futures: of recent origin and Selected Poems, he displays his predecessors' attention to specific sensory detail, their careful crafting of enjambed free-verse stanzas, and their capacity for salient juxtapositions. Here