"Michael Heffernan is one of those writers who can juggle a dozen objects of different shapes and sizes with the grace of an angel and no help from above. And all the while he will seem to be talking to you about the weather. And the weather that most concerns him is the soul's, in its poorly insulated home in the body." Bonnie Costello

"Michael Heffernan has sustained and amplified a poetry of real intelligence, technical precision, and acoustic splendour. He is a writer who has hit his stride, sure-footed in his craft enough to let imagination run and leap and dance." Thomas Lynch

Michael Heffernan teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) and co-directs the International Writers' Course at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His book Love's Answer won the Iowa Poetry Prize in 1993. He has received three fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Elkins, Arkansas. He has published another collection of poetry with Salmon, Another Part of the Island (1999).

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