The Wages of Goodness: Poems

By Michael Blumenthal

Book Overview

In The Wages of Goodness Michael Blumenthal explores the costs and the wages of three ruling obsessions in our lives:  love, grief, and virtue.  Reacting to a tendency in contemporary poetry to avoid such "sentimental" and abstract notions as goodness, Blumenthal succeeds in making ideas live through the particulars of each poem.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826208320
• ISBN13: 9780826208323
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 14 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 5