Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. "Heim's poems are treasurehouses of carved thought: she is actually thinking, word by word, line by line, and her argument's currents seem to etch patterns in the syntax, like wall carvings made by a delicate and ethical hand. Everything here is transparency, lightness—illuminations sifted through a mind willing to be unsettled by experience's injurious data. Reading these phenomenal and profoundly philosophical poems, I think of still lives by Giorgio Morandi—careful, enigmatic arrangements of the ordinary. Heim's acoustic elegance places her in the front ranks of those who pursue the plainspoken sublime."—Wayne Koestenbaum
About the Author
Stefania Heim holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University and is completing a PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, writing a dissertation called "Dark Matter: Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser, and the Scholar's Art." Her various writings—poems, essays, and translations—have appeared in A Public Space, Aufgabe, Jacket2, The Journal of Narrative Theory, The Literary Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of CIRCUMFERENCE: Poetry in Translation and in 2014 will become a poetry editor at The Boston Review. She has taught at Columbia University, Deep Springs College, and Hunter College. She was raised in Queens, NY.