Don't Die: Poems 2013-2021 is Michael Blumenthal's most insightful, raw and important work to date. "One of the natural poets of his generation," praised Seamus Heaney, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. "The intellect of a scholar, the sensitivity of a poet, the objectivity of a professor of law: it hardly seems possible that so many virtues can be embodied in one," wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and translator, C.K. Williams.
Don't Die: Poems 2013-2021 is Michael Blumenthal's most insightful, raw and important work to date. "One of the natural poets of his generation," praised Seamus Heaney, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. "The intellect of a scholar, the sensitivity of a poet, the objectivity of a professor of law: it hardly seems possible that so many virtues can be embodied in one," wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic and translator, C.K. Williams.
- Michael Blumenthal was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard from 1983-1992 and ultimately became Director of their Creative Writing Program. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in residence for many years in Budapest Hungary and has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His many awards and accolades include the Ribalow Prize for Best Jewish Fiction judged by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel and novelist Thomas Kenneally, author of Schindler's List.
"Dazed by existence, advancing by leaps and loopholes of inference,
Michael Blumenthal's poems, even at their darkest, are never far
from joy." - Anthony Hecht
"I've never met Mr. Blumenthal but we've become close friends
through his poetry. He and Rexroth and Kumin and Swenson. Good
company." - Garrison Keillor
"One of the natural poets of his generation." -Seamus Heaney,
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
"Dazed by existence, advancing by leaps and loopholes of inference,
Michael Blumenthal's poems, even at their darkest, are never far
from joy." - Anthony Hecht
"I've never met Mr. Blumenthal but we've become close friends
through his poetry. He and Rexroth and Kumin and Swenson. Good
company." - Garrison Keillor
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