• Michael Blumenthal is the author of five previous collections of poetry. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Paris Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and many other publications. He graduated from Cornell Law School with a J.D. degree and has worked as an antitrust lawyer, a high school German teacher, an editor at Time-Life books, an arts administrator and a speech writer. • Winner of the 1999 Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry. • Teaches at University of Kansas Other Titles: Wages of Goodness, U of MO, 0826208320, (1992) Laps: A Poem U of MA, (1984)