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A delicious and extensive sampling spanning 44 years of poetry from the published collections and new work of Michael Blumenthal, whom Seamus Heany, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, callled "One of the natural poets of his generation." Previously endoresed by Maxim Kumin, W.D. Snodgrass and Howard Nemerov, among others.

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. W...

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American & European sensibility with a contemporary view of Eastern European culture, and the erotic playfulness of European literature.

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In these brief essays, Blumenthal provides unconventional insights into our contemporary political, educational, and social systems, challenging us to look beyond the headlines to the psychological and sociological realities that underlie our conventional thinking.

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

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In his own words, the flight from Nazi Germany that forged an icon of American business and politics

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In May of 2007, noted American poet and novelist and son of Holocaust refugees Michael Blumenthal went to South Africa to volunteer at C.A.R.E., a rehabilitation center for orphaned and injured baboons founded by Rita Miljo. Rita was a Lithuanian-born childhood member of the Hitler Youth who had gone on to have a life as adventure-filled as Beryl Markham's in West With the Night. "A lot of people have asked me whether they could write 'my ...

Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother. As fate would have it, his adoptive father, a German-Jewish refugee raised by a loveless and embittered stepmother, has inflicted on his stepson a fate uncannily similar to his own. With these revelations, the "mysteries” that seem to have permeated Michael's childhood are laid bare, triggering a quest for belonging that will in...

Blumenthal creates a moving portrait of the human struggle for psychological growth, as well as a witty satire of life at the top of the academic world. The work won the 1994 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Best Work of Jewish Fiction.