Love's
Answer
*Iowa Poetry Prize*
Iowa 1994
“Love’s
Answer is the best book yet by one of the very best poets
we have.” —X.J. Kennedy
“Passionate
and droll, these astonishing meditations on faith, desire,
and memory divide the arrow at the center of the target again
and again. Michael Heffernan is a poet of very great, very
casual power.” —Robert Wallace
“The
many conflicts the poet evokes...are parables, it seems, of
his own adversarial relation to the world. So when at the
book's end...the poet is able to savor the world's beauty
unencumbered by misgivings, the fruit of reconciliation is
sweet.” —The New York Times Book Review |