Dusty Angel (American Poets Continuum) - Softcover

Blumenthal, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880238810 ISBN 13: 9781880238813

Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd., 1999

Synopsis

Poems that speak to lust, love and loss.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Blumenthal holds the Darden Distinguished Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. He is author of Dusty Angel (BOA, 1999), which won the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, as well as four other poetry books, one novel, one memoir, an essay collection, and translations of poems by Peter Kantor. Publications include The New Yorker, and Paris Review.

From Library Journal:

There aren't many poets these days who can get away with using words like beautiful and wonderful and good--but in Blumenthal's work, these words seem fresh and underutilized. Blumenthal (The Wages of Goodness) writes in a style that is pure, simple, utterly accessible, loving, lyrical, and full of emotion. He writes of a Scrabble game: "as you wind up with family and I end with above/ on this old, fated gameboard of luck and love." In this book, which won the 1999 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, he speaks about everything from chairs to pineapples to his small son's antics to a wasp that has entered his study. Recommended for public and academic libraries.
-Judy Clarence, California State Univ. Lib., Hayward
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About this edition

• Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1880238810
• ISBN 13: 9781880238813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 75