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."
In "The Wages of Goodness" Michael Blumenthal explores the costs and the wages of three ruling obsessions in our lives: love, grief, and virtue. Re...