Samuel Menashe
Subtitle: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
Contributors: Christopher Ricks (Editor)
Publisher: Library of America
Published: October 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781931082853
Subjects: American Contemporary Poetry; Poetry; American - General; Poetry / Single Author / American
Description: Samuel Menasche has created a poetic mode that is all his own: Compresed, alert to linguistic surprise, capable of disclosing ultimate meanings in the most ordinary phenomena. Emerging out oa a life in shich, the poet's words, "each day was the only day", Menasches work has a mysterious simplicity, a religious intensity, and a lingering emotional force.