No, Not really... Don't try to heat it up with a torch because there is a rubber insoluter inside of the handle and you will ruin it.
If the length of smaller dia. rod (between the ball joint and the actual black handle) is long enough to bend, then that's where you need to make your bend.
Otherwise you would have to cut that smaller dia rod, and get some more material to weld onto it to make it an offset (dogleg) shifter.
Here's a pic of a t/case shifter that has been offset so you can get the idea:
![](http://www.marlincrawler.com/images/dogshift_250.jpg)