Through Michael Blumenthal’s eyes we gain a renewed, childlike wonder at everything from plants, trees, and relationships to the most fundamental word in our vocabulary: AND. Blumenthal uses the conju
?The finest collection of poetry I’ve read in a very long time.”?Ron HansenFrom my birth motherI took my melancholy dispositionand from my fatherthe ability to get through lifewith a bullet in one arm
What’s wrong with the contemporary American medical system? What does it mean when a state’s democratic presidential primary casts 40% of its votes for a felon incarcerated in another state? What’s so
Etan Yogev had had no experience in bed?and hardly any outside of it?and it was not without a strong feeling of awkwardness and insecurity that he had first allowed Daphna Flinker to guide his somewha
Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers liv
Literary Nonfiction. Nature. Travel. 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 c
Poetry. Translated from the Hungarian by Michael Blumenthal. Kantor shares with his fellow Central and Eastern European poets the destiny of being, unavoidably, a "political" poet of sorts. "The past,
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