Poetry Collections

SYMPATHETIC MAGIC

1980

Sympathetic Magic: Poems

Water Mark Poets of North America First Book Prize.

"The last first book I remember as having this strangeness and distinction was called Hamonium." Howard Nemerov

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DAYS WE WOULD RATHER KNOW

May, 1984

“Blumenthal’s second collection of poems adds a buoyant new presence to contemporary American poetry. I cannot think of anyone in America just now who writes as he does.” - Helen Vendler, The New Republic

LAPS

May, 1984

Laps: A Poem

Winner of the University of Massachusetts Juniper Prize.

A sequence of poems written in the voice of a swimmer who seeks to come to grips with his mother’s early death.