Interview With Poet And Author Michael Klein

Interview with poet and author Michael Klein who has always inspired me to go deeper. The New York Times Book Review said of “Track Conditions” – “Klein, a poet, tells his story with dignity.. .Track Conditions illustrates the thin line separating the victor from the defeated – the bone fissure that in an instant derails a champion, the morning a man wakes up and decides not to take a drink.” Of his memoir, “The End of Being Known” Publishers Weekly said, "Klein's prose style, like his poetry, is dreamy, allusive, repetitive in that way that admirers term 'hypnotic.' ” Among the praise for his book of poems, “then, we were still living” is this from Lynn Emanuel: “Several years ago I heard Michael Klein read a four line poem from what was to become this remarkable new collection, then, we were still living, and thinking that he had gotten to the heart of the new, changed world. Now, I am sure of it. Everything in this book is terrifying and beautiful and necessary and there isn’t one syllable that isn’t absolutely required by the times we live in. This is a wholly original and essential book.” Michael Klein teaches at the MFA Program at Goddard College in Vermont, read here what he says about teaching: http://www.goddard.edu/michaelklein Visit his website http://www.boypoet.com/ And his blog http://www.notesfromtheinterior.blogspot.com/