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Synopsis
Poems that speak to lust, love and loss.
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 Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.