Days We Would Rather Know - Softcover

Blumenthal, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1929355246 ISBN 13: 9781929355242

Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2005

Synopsis

Poetry. Now back in print after more than 20 years, Michael Blumenthal's DAYS WE WOULD RATHER KNOW, originally published by Viking-Penguin and sold out in both of its original printings, was one of the most admired, and most influential, books of American poetry of the 1980's, and marked the auspicious continuation of one of the decade's most promising debuts. While different in scope, subject, and style, these seventy poems all body forth a central theme: that - as reality is dissatisfying and satisfaction elusive - hope is in itself an antidote, and possibility is always invigorating. "Love is rarely as exciting as the wish for love," writes Blumenthal; DAYS WE WOULD RATHER KNOW suggests that we are as fulfilled, as animated, by our longings as by the resolution of those wishes.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Michael Blumenthal's second collection of poems, Days We Would Rather Know," wrote critic Helen Vender in The New Republic in l984, "adds a buoyant and odd new presence to contemporary American poetry... I cannot think of anyone in America just now who might write as Blumenthal does.... These are a young man's poems, dizzy with discovering that something can be affirmed, that the world can be loved."

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1929355246
• ISBN 13: 9781929355242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118