Michael C Blumenthal's Reading Interests
Influences
Yeats, Frost, Howard Nemerov, Pablo Neruda, Philip Roth, D.H. Lawrence, Yehuda Amichai, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke
"Blumenthal the latter-day psalmist encompasses in these brilliant poems both chatter and stillness, pantheism and skepticism, rapture and resignation to the ordinary. He is a wisdom poet, in the fullness of vision and opulent language."”
—Phillip Lopate
About Michael
Michael Blumenthal graduated from the Cornell Law School with a J.D. degree in 1974, after studying philosophy and economics at the State U. of New York at Binghamton. His seventh book of poems, And, will be published by BOA Editions in May, 2009. A graduate...
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