Days We Would Rather Know: Poems

Blumenthal, Michael

ISBN 10: 0670776122 / ISBN 13: 9780670776122

Published by Viking Adult, 1984

About this Item

Hardcover, with dust jacket. Very good condition. Binding is strong and tight. Corners square. Very light sunning along the head of the boards. Pages bright and clean. Free of marks or writing. Dust jacket has been wrapped in a protective mylar cover. Jacket is glossy and clean. Free of other tears or creases. Dated 1984 on copyright page. No date on title page. 118 pages. Overall very good condition. We are a real brick and mortar bookstore and ship books every day. This listing was written by an actual person with the book in front of them for inspection. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Days We Would Rather Know: Poems
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670776122
• ISBN 13: 9780670776122
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Michael Blumenthal's Days We Would Rather Know, originally published by Viking-Penguin and sold out in both its original printings, was one of the most admired, and most influential, books of American poetry of the l980s, and marked the auspicious continuation of one of the decade's most promising debuts. Of Michael Blumenthal's first book, Sympathetic Magic, Howard Nemerov said, "The last first book I remember as having this strangeness and distinction was called Harmonium." That comparison to the work of Wallace Stevens was, if anything, more apt in the case of this astonishing second collection, a collection that helped establish Mr. Blumenthal as a master of language in his own right. He worked his brand of magic with unforgettable imagery ("When your wife uttered your son like a large syllable into this world"), a lambent humor ("I wish Robert Rauschenberg would take back his bathtub and his floating goat"), and a playful eroticism ("My mouth puddles with bourbon and the taste of

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.