"Blood Song" is the first full-length collection by poet Michael Schmeltzer.

Praise for "Blood Song"

There is a radical nostalgia at the heart of "Blood Song," a nostalgia that recovers the wounds of experience and brings it to a rich, imaginative culmination. In this way, the book's title is profoundly apt: on the one hand, Michael Schmeltzer's poems are about blood and the tragic consciousness that is the result of our being in time; on the other hand, the poems are about song, the reconciling artfulness that is the source of the best poetry. As one of Schmeltzer's canny speakers...