Earth and Cave

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."