Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. EARTH AND CAVE by Michael Heller is a memoir in prose and poetry written in the 1960s when the author lived in Nerja, a small coastal village in Spain. Photographs and drawings of Nerja's ancient caves illustrate the book. EARTH AND CAVE, writes the poet Hugh Seidman, is a wonderfully evocative and luminous memoir...Heller's meditation embodies the harsh life and landscape of the indigenous population, along with the ever-lurking mystery and aura of Nerja's pre-historic caves...It brings us movingly into touch with the most basic and human questions: how shall we relate to others around us and to the place in which we live.
