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Behind Our Memories
Poetry. BEHIND OUR MEMORIES is the newest book by Florida poet Michael Hettich. Dealing with themes of love, family and the relationships that challenge us, this book offers brief snapshots into the world of the poem's speaker. "After Months of Careful Deliberation / my love has decided to take me apart. / She says I've been forgetting things lately, that she / wants / to see me laid out on the floor so she can tell / what's broken and replace it."
Like Happiness
Poetry. "Michael Hettich's poems are like grace, like gifts, like the natural world made Technicolor, like Technicolor making the natural world. He is a master of the simile, and in Like Happiness, he harnesses a specific and collective memory, the power of myth and allusion, like no one else. His poems give his readers a deep happiness, an earned happiness, a happiness decided upon with clarity and wisdom"--Denise Duhamel.
The Animals Beyond Us
Using natural imagery and the disjunctive ease of jazz, Hettich imagines a way through isolation, longing, and haunting unexplained loss.
Bluer and More Vast
Prose Poems
The Measured Breathing
Poetry. This winner of the 2011 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest will delight everyone who enjoys poetry. Written with a flair for language, a unique way of looking at the natural world, and a compassionate regard for human emotion, Michael Hettich makes the world fresh and new again by his singular and enagaging voice. "In THE MEASURED BREATHING, Michael Hettich inhabits with great panache and perfect pitch the interior landscape of consciousness, that world in which one encounters oneself beyond language. Hettich is a cartographer of that realm in which we try on other lives 'until we can dress in our own skin again and vanish from ourselves for a while.'" Steve Kowit "Mystery, these poems tell us, continues to reside at the center of everything we think we know about existence. Splendidly baffling, imagistically engaging, and full of enjoyable surprises, THE MEASURED BREATHING explores that mystery. Hettich is an earthy fabulist here, yet the poems' ingenious transformations read as integral to survival. Yes, there is darkness, but it 'is filled with streams and underground pools' of imagination." Susan Kelly-DeWitt"
To Start an Orchard
In these stunning, fable-like poems, humans turn into animals in transformations that seem utterly natural, if not necessary. Michael Hettich is one of our best and most necessary poets because his dreamlike stories remind us how little we truly see and how often we sleep through the day's deep revelations.
The Frozen Harbor
Poetry. Winner of the 2016 David Martinson--Meadowhawk Prize. "Michael Hettich's THE FROZEN HARBOR is a book brimming over with revelations, a rich, evocative collection that is an absolute joy to read. Throughout the book, Hettich takes us on a constant course of discovery, often voyaging off the map into worlds of surprising unpredictability. The result is an engaging, compelling poetry led with imaginative turns and intersections, and reading it we find ourselves awakened once more to the mystery, beauty, and wonder of the world around us."--Robert Hedin
The Halo of Bees
The Halo of Bees is comprised of new poems by Michael Hettich plus selections from his twelve collections published from 1990 to 2022. Hettich has been called "an earthy fabulist" (Susan Kelly-DeWitt), "a master of the simile" (Denise Duhamel), and "one of our best and most necessary poets" (Richard Jones); his poetry "tender, endlessly inventive" (Chase Twitchell), "stunningly intuitive and elemental" (Richard Blanco), and "half-remembered fables or lyrical dreams" (Campbell McGrath).
