Michael Charles Blumenthal
Poet, Fiction Writer, Essayist & Translator
Welcome to my website. As a writer of poetry, novels, short stories, essays and translations over the past 50 years, my mission has been to attempt to depict life in all its beauty, tragedy, complexity and sacredness. I hope you will find something in my work that moves you and brings you joy in being alive in this world, with all its intensities of beauty and pain.
"One of the natural poets of his generation."
— Seamus Heaney
"You swam into my Keatsian or Galilean ken with all the wonder and astonishment and delight of a new planet of major magnitude."
— Anthony Hecht
"I have no doubt in saying that Michael Blumenthal is one of the most talented poets of his generation."
— W.D. Snodgrass