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Samuel Menashe

New and Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #17)

Samuel Menashe Christopher Ricks

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English
The Library of America
06 October 2005
The most comprehensive collection available of Menashe's concise and powerfully suggestive poetry

Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) was the first recipient of The Poetry Foundation'sNeglected Masters Prize in 2004 and this volume was published in conjunction with that award. Born in New York City, Menashe practiced his art of ""compression and crystallization"" (in Derek Mahon's phrase) in poems that are brief in form but startlingly wide-ranging and profound in their engagement with ultimate questions. Dana Gioia has written- ""Menashe is essentially a religious poet, though one without an orthodox creed. Nearly every poem he has ever published radiates a heightened religious awareness.""

Intensely musical and rigorously constructed, Menashe's poetry stands apart in its solitary meditative power. But it is equally a poetry of the everyday, suffused, in the words of Christopher Ricks, with ""the courage of comedy, flanked by the respect of innocence."" The humblest of objects, the minutest of natural forms here become powerfully suggestive, and even the shortest of the poems are spacious in the perspectives they open.

About the American Poets Project

Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.
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Imprint:   The Library of America
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   17
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 121mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   272g
ISBN:   9781931082853
ISBN 10:   1931082855
Series:   American Poets Project
Pages:   200
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Christopher Ricks, editor of this volume, is Warren Professor of the Humanities and co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and the author of many distinguished works of criticism, includingMilton's Grand StyleandThe Force of Poetry.

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