In a multigenre approach, making use of poetry, prose and graphics, Heller articulates with precision and clarity the lyric/anti-lyric boundaries of contemporary life exploring the nature of violence, politics, art, and the literary imagination. Heller s poetry, impelled by what he calls his thought-prosody, in its diction and cadences, its range of references and allusions, strives to create an intelligible aesthetic and ethical vision, which gives more force to a human argument of the world. "