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.

Poet Michael Klein's New & Selected work!

Tour the brilliant, wild, and careful career of poet Michael Klein, from a generous serving of new work all the way back to his 1993 debut, titled 1990. The HIV crisis, the ecstasy of our bonds with both the human and the animal worlds, the exquisite complications of longing, love songs to New York and to Provincetown--the varied, rich textures and electrifying honesty of his work bring rare gratification to his readers.