{"product_id":"no-hurry-poems-2000-2012-paperback","title":"No Hurry: Poems 2000-2012 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Blumenthal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The finest collection of poetry I've read in a very long time.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Ron Hansen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom my birth mother\u003cbr\u003eI took my melancholy disposition\u003cbr\u003eand from my father\u003cbr\u003ethe ability to get through life\u003cbr\u003ewith a bullet in one arm.\u003cbr\u003e--from Genetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Hurry\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of poems for the aging in body but youthful in spirit, for those interested in continuing to ask most meaningful questions as they head \"downhill\" What does it mean to be alive? What shall we make of this journey from birth to death? How can we find meaning and joy amid our mortality and suffering?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Blumenthal's is the author of seven previous books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eAnd\u003c\/i\u003e published by BOA Editions in 2009. A graduate of Cornell Law School and formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, he is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eAll My Mothers and Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e (Harper Collins, 2002), and of \u003ci\u003eDusty Angel\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions, 1999). His novel \u003ci\u003eWeinstock Among The Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, which won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction, has just been re-issued in paperback, and his collection of essays from Central Europe, \u003ci\u003eWhen History Enters the House\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1998. A frequent translator from the German, French and Hungarian and former psychotherapist, he spent a month in South Africa in May of 2007 working with orphaned infant chacma baboons at the C.A.R.E. foundation, an experience he has chronicled in Natural History and The Washington Post Magazine. His book-length account, \u003ci\u003e\"Because They Needed Me: \" The Incredible Struggle of Rita Miljo To Save The Baboons of South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, will be published in Germany next year. Two of his other books, a collection of selected poems and a memoir, were also recently published in Germany and featured at The Frankfurt Book Fair in the fall of 2011. He is currently Visiting Professor of Law at The University of West Virginia College of Law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 125\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726589456691,"sku":"9780983294474","price":24.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/L3FVUHoxcFJlV2R3RWV6NEc5b0pNdz09.webp?v=1763740780","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/no-hurry-poems-2000-2012-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}