(May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Few new books of American poems have more unity—or more happiness—than the latest from Blumenthal: the law professor, memoirist, novelist (Dusty Angel) and psychotherapist has set himself t
- Title : And (American Poets Continuum)
- Author : Michael Blumenthal
- Rating : 4.89 (381 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-9-22
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 112 Pages
- Asin : 1934414212
- Language : English
(May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Few new books of American poems have more unity—or more happiness—than the latest from Blumenthal: the law professor, memoirist, novelist (Dusty Angel) and psychotherapist has set himself the daunting task of depicting joy in all its varieties. Blumenthal has long made the positive emotions, those that risk sentimentality, his special subject: sometimes the results of that long study turn sublime. Elsewhere, though, Blumenthal fails to find words as exuberant or as satisfying as he wants to remind us that life can be: some readers will thrill, but others will likely balk, at the lustful little angel that inhabits his body, the deliquescence of the air whispering its soothing song. . His extended praise includes the spiritual (he knows// that the air is rife with the anarchy of the possible,/ that the hills are moving, ever so secretly, during/ the night) but also theBlumenthal currently holds the Mina Hohenberg Darden Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. Michael Blumenthal graduated from Cornell Law School with a J.D. degree in 1974 after studying philosophy and economics at the State U. His novel Weinstock Among The Dying, which won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. of New York at Binghamton. A frequent translator from German, French and Hungarian, he practices psychotherapy with Anglophone expatriates in Budapest and spends summers at his house in a small village near the shores of Lake Balaton in HuI bought these cards for my 2 yr old daughter to help learn colors and shapes she and I both love them! We have a blast just going through and flipping through saying the shapes and colors or I lay some out and ask her to find me blue square Red circle etc. Whether or not their ideas will replace the current hunter-killer paradigm only time will tell. Sometimes it just inspires me to press on when every thing seems so bleak and dim. This is a great book about finding just the right house for a family. I don't read love stories so that I can read about a couple not being together for almost the whole book, I read them so I can enjoy a couple being together & interacting with each other. Absolutely brilliant!. But underneath the cover is a rich and vibrant story encompassing myriad themes: family ties in an extended, close-knit family; restrictive societal attitudes toward same-sex relationships; homelessness and struggles in financially troubled times; even sexual harassment in the workplace. What I love abAfter reading these poems, which are designed with a cosmic sweep, you get the feeling that Blumenthal’s plan is, as in Dylan Thomas’s poem, eventually just to go gentle into that good night: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” be damned.--THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARDMichael Blumenthal’s stunning new book, And, is an Eliotic celebration of life in the world as continuum and progress. His other books include the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (HarperCollins Publishers, 2002), and the poetry collection Dusty Angel (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1999), for which he was awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.Blumenthal’s new collection of poems, titled “And,” is the closest that the stoicism of Ecclesiastes will come to getting a 21st-century makeover. He achieves this through a simple and seductive meditation upon the conjunction, “and,” and the way it enriches the complexity of language as it shapes lived experience.--The Montserrat Review . The result is a book of poems-as-hymns-and-praises.Michael Blumenthal holds the Mina Hohenberg Darden Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion Un
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