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| The Night Breeze Off the Ocean |
| Michael Heffernan |
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Poetry
106 Pages, .................. ISBN: 0-910055-98-X
Paper: $15.95..................
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Michael Heffernan uses his powerful affinity for strong, taut language to offer us a dose of Irish sensibility and a modicum of sorrow and joy. This latest collection will excite his followers and convert the rest of us. Through an artful mastery of language and image, Night Breeze delves deep into the layers of human consciousness and blurs the line between living and dying, sorrow and joy, reality and imagination, tragedy and bliss.
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| Michael Heffernan currently teaches at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is the author of several collections, including, Love’s Answer and To the Wreckers of Havoc. |
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| Praise for The Night Breeze Off the Ocean |
| "To write poems that combine reason and feeling so well must require a smart heart and a mind capable of love. Michael Heffernan has what it takes to lead us, line by line, to a place where emotion and thought remarkably occupy the same ground". . |
—Billy Collins.............. |
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| "Heffernan's poems will outlive us all. The imaginative range, emotional register and technical virtuosity of this work is permanent—masteries more startling for the cloak of ease he wraps them in: a might work in words." |
—Thomas Lynch.......... |
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"The language of this poetry is civilized and deeply accomplished."
—Paul Zimmer |
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