No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012

Auteur

Michael Blumenthal's is the author of seven previous books of poetry, most recently And published by BOA Editions in 2009. A graduate of Cornell Law School and formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, he is the author of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (Harper Collins, 2002), and of Dusty Angel (BOA Editions, 1999). His novel Weinstock Among The Dying, which won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction, has just been re-issued in paperback, and his collection of essays from Central Europe, When History Enters the House, was published in 1998. A frequent translator from the German, French and Hungarian and former psychotherapist, he spent a month in South Africa in May of 2007 working with orphaned infant chacma baboons at the C.A.R.E. foundation, an experience he has chronicled in Natural History and The Washington Post Magazine. His book-length account, "Because They Needed Me:” The Incredible Struggle of Rita Miljo To Save The Baboons of South Africa, will be published in Germany next year. Two of his other books, a collection of selected poems and a memoir, were also recently published in Germany and featured at The Frankfurt Book Fair in the fall of 2011. He is currently Visiting Professor of Law at The University of West Virginia College of Law.

Texte du rabat

No Hurry is of mixed blessings; of tension, hunger, and challenges of having a body which both thrives and decays.

Contenu

No Hurry

I. Mixed Blessings
Atelier Rheingold
The Rabbi Writes a Marriage Poem
A Photo of Terezin
Lilac Nostalgia
Because Marriage is Not for Romantics
Le Choix
Habitations Sadness
In A Time of Economic Downturn, I Gaze Up at the Sky
The Human Condition
"And the Fish Swim in the Lake, And Do Not Even Own Clothing"
Gratitude Genetics
Everybody Is Wonderful when They're Wonderful
Nostalgia for Paris Poetry Love Blessed

II. Not the Soul

Not the Soul
Homage to Hugh Hefner
Samizdat's Muse
Civic Leaders The Germans
Song of the Dow
Virtue Self-Containment
Autobiography of a Face
Desire Existential Couplets Moles

III. Be Kind

The Wounded
The Words
Weeping at the Oscars
Background Music
Pancakes
Motel on the Mountain
The Other Side of the Story
Here Is Your Striped Shirt
The Pigeon
The Past