Background
Blumenthal, Michael Charles was born on March 8, 1949 in Vineland, New Jersey, United States. Son of Julius Ernst and Betty Blumenthal.
( In The Wages of Goodness Michael Blumenthal explores th...)
In The Wages of Goodness Michael Blumenthal explores the costs and the wages of three ruling obsessions in our lives: love, grief, and virtue. Reacting to a tendency in contemporary poetry to avoid such "sentimental" and abstract notions as goodness, Blumenthal succeeds in making ideas live through the particulars of each poem.
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Fiction. Jewish Studies. This Michael Blumenthal novel was chosen by Elie Wiesel, Thomas Kenneally, and Merrill Joan Gerber as winner of Hadassah Magazine's prestigious Ribelow Prize as Best Jewish Novel of the Year in 1994. In its all-too-short lifespan, it received rave reviews from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and glowing tributes from such writers as Lorrie Moore, Tim O'Brien, Jhumpa Lahiri, Robert Coles, and Leslie Epstein. Unfortunately, just three months after the novel's publication, its publisher, Zoland Books, was forced to close for economic reasons, and this brilliant novel by one of America's finest poets hardly even saw the light of day. It is now available for the first time in paperback allowing it a second--really a first--life. Once you read it, I am sure you will agree that it more than deserves the kind of critical and popular attention which--due to the unfortunate circumstances that befell its original publisher--it never received.
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Blumenthal, Michael Charles was born on March 8, 1949 in Vineland, New Jersey, United States. Son of Julius Ernst and Betty Blumenthal.
Bachelor, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1969. Juris Doctor, Cornell University, 1974.
Associate professor English Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1983-1988, director creative writing, 1988-1992. Senior Fulbright professor Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, 1992-1995. Visiting professor University Haifa, Israel, 1996-1997.
Visiting writer Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, 1997-1998. Distinguished visiting poet Wichita (Kansas) State University, 1999. Senior Fulbright professor, Free University Berlin, 1999-2000.
Distinguished visiting poet Santa Clara University, 2001. Writer, editor Time-Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia, 1977-1980. Special assistant to chairman National Endowment of the Humanities, Washington, 1980-1981.
Producer, director West German television, Washington, 1981-1983. Bingham poet-in-residence University Louisville, 1982. Senior editor Center European University Press, Budapest, 1988-1992.
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( Poems that speak to lust, love and loss. )
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Board directors Partners in Education, Austin, Texas, since 1998, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1985-1988. Trustee American University Center Aix-en-Provence, France, since 1992. Member International Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Academy American Poets (Peter I. B. Lavan award 1986), Poets and Writers, New York Bar Association.
Married Cynthia Mae Curtner, October 2, 1982 (divorced May 1984). Married Isabelle Germaine Leconte, December 2, 1989. 1 child, Noah Gabriel.