The Early Minutes of Without: New & Selected Poems

Poetry. New & Selected. In his first book, 1990, Michael Klein asks "What is God's will after he lets you live?" The question permeates 30 years of Klein's work. The answers arrive by new paths every time and are never the same: love, of course-but also redemption, interruption, the role of art in life, sex, loss. Again and again, Michael Klein proves that the pursuit of that essential question makes poetry out of our living, makes these poems searching, heartbreaking, and magically wise.