Integration is the main source of political controversy in Europe. As it approaches the new millennium, its sense of unease is becoming palpable. Genuine uncertainty about its ultimate allegiances raises the most basic and divisive of human inquiries: who am I and where do I belong? Charting the changing idea of Europe from the Renaissance to the present day, this book provides a critical genealogy of the European project over several centuries, with particular attention to the last hundred years. It takes as its principal theme the continuing tension between two rival geopolitical tendencies - the nationalist forces of disintegration and localism on the one hand, and the impulse towards greater integration, co-operation on the other - to provide a consideration of what Europe has meant in the past and what it might mean in the future.

The Meaning of Europe: Geography and Geopolitics

Politics & Social Sciences

Heffernan, Michael

Social Sciences

Hodder Education Publishers

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

In At the Bureau of Divine Music, award-winning poet Michael Heffernan combines serious ruminations on the passage of years, on love and infidelity, and on remembrances and regrets with meditations on the more ordinary occurrences of daily life. No matter what their subject matter, the poems are united by their contemplative tone, intelligent details, and elegant style. Written mostly in iambic pentameter, and some in formal sonnets, Heffernan's poems effortlessly blend the surreal and the actual, the exciting and the mundane, and make for a unique and satisfying reading experience. 
At the Bureau of Divine Music contains a mix of long monologues that set out dramatic narratives and shorter pieces that glimpse only a limited scene. His complex speakers are at turns funny and angry, loving and bitter. Their insightful descriptions are filled with sensory details-the tastes, sounds, smells, and sights of memories, dreams, and the trials of the moment-and they inhabit dreamy but familiar settings like "whole neighborhoods of happy people," the suburban backyard, or the drive-in movie theater on the edge of town. While some of the poems are inspired by domestic disturbances, betrayals, and losses, others visit redemptions, sweet long-ago journeys, and ecstasies. 
This collection contains a range of Heffernan's work from the last several years, presented here together for the first time. Fans of Heffernan's writing and readers interested in poetry will enjoy At the Bureau of Divine Music.

At the Bureau of Divine Music (Made in Michigan Writer Series)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Wayne State University Press

The Cry of Oliver Hardy: Poems (The Contemporary Poetry Ser.)

Michael Heffernan's is a unique, controlled, yet oblique and interesting poetic voice, full of intelligence and marvelous self-awareness. This book is a sustained and professional performance, practiced any yet full of delightful chances.

The University of Georgia Press

To the Wreckers of Havoc (Contemporary Poetry (Univ of Georgia Paperback))

Univ of Georgia Pr

Michael Heffernan's is a unique, controlled, yet oblique and interesting poetic voice, full of intelligence and marvelous self-awareness. This book is a sustained and professional performance, practiced any yet full of delightful chances.

University of Georgia Press

Love's Answer (Iowa Poetry Prize)

History & Criticism

University Of Iowa Press

Michael Heffernan’s poems occupy a space in his ordinary life and the world he enters in company with his own multifarious first person singular, who is often talking. When he stops doing that, something may get written down. The poem, then, begins to live in its own place where, for a moment, nothing is ordinary.

Walking Distance: Poems

Lost Horse Press

The Man at Home

Univ of Arkansas Pr

The Man at Home: Poems

University of Arkansas Press

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