Winner of
the 2004 Tales Prize: Swimmer Dreams by Michael Hettich
The
wistful and longing narratives of Michael Hettich’s Swimmer
Dreams are a family history rendered in watercolor, rich and delicate
at the same time, and always reminding the reader that music and memory
render the true life—the interior life—more accurately than
any photograph.
Sample Poems by Michael Hettich
“Hettich has a wonderful knack for stripping things down to their
essentials. While it is said that all poems are love poems, it is particularly
true of Hettich’s work—these poems are a reaching out, striving
to reach the point of connection to ourselves and others.”—Jim
Daniels
“To read Michael Hettich’s poetry is to clearly see this compassionate
man: beauty, sorrow, and hope bleed from his lines. Hettich allows us to visit
his inner places, shows us the deep confusion and stark sublimity of the body’s
landscapes. His poems spring from some primal place within, and in the way
good lyric poems do, represent cries of the human spirit, that music of breath
and blood.”—Jesse Millner
Michael Hettich has published twelve previous books of poetry, most of
them chapbooks and limited editions. His poems and essays have appeared
widely in journals, and he has edited three anthologies of South Florida
writers. He received a Ph.D. in English and American literature from University
of Miami in 1991 and has taught since then at Miami Dade College, from
which he received an Endowed Teaching Chair in 1996. He lives with his
family in Miami.
ISBN 1932339787, 84 pages, $17.00
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