Collected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Menashe, Samuel

Poetry

Natl Poetry Foundation

From the Publisher 6 x 9 trim. LC 85-62927

Poetry. Edited by Bhisham Bherwani and Nicholas Birns, with a foreword by Stephanie Burt and afterword by Dana Gioia. Several years in the making, THE SHRINE WHOSE SHAPE I AM compiles all of Samuel Menashe's published poetry and his one short story. "The Menashean magic ordains that the more closely you examine these small poems, the more you find tucked into each of them. Menashe's prevailing tone of calm, urbane alertness leaves plenty of space for puckishness and puns, elegy and war, joy and grief, and of our shared human sense, universal but hard to put into words, of navigating through the world in a body."--Rachel Hadas "Menashe's poems are as unique as the man himself. A flaneur of bohemian Manhattan (when such a place existed), he recited his poems to friends and acquaintances at the drop of a hat in an airy, lilting baritone. Lying on a rock in Central Park, he heard the 'a creak of oarlocks,' and in his cold-water flat on Thompson Street he bemoaned the kitchen 'Where I do not eat / Where the bathtub stands / Upon cat feet--.' His New York was shot through with melancholy and a spiritual longing, at once Biblical and embodied. He is an essential American poet."--David Yezzi

The Shrine Whose Shape I Am: The Collected Poetry of Samuel Menashe

Audubon Terrace Press

The Niche Narrows: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. Samuel Menashe "compresses thought into language intense and clear as diamonds"—Stephen Spender, New York Review of Books. Described by Donald Davie in the New Statesman as a "testcase for readers and a challenge to writers," Menashe's poetry has been enthusiastically reviewed in some of the most prestigious journals in the English-speaking world and praised by critics and poets as various and distinguished as Robert Graves, Kathleen Raine, Austin Clarke, Hugh Kenner, Calvin Bedient, Derek Mahon, Dana Gionia, and Barry Ahearn.

Talisman House, Publishers

Despite much acclaim, Menashe was considered marginal on the American poetry scene. Prominent poets, critics and editors who have admired Menashe's work include Dana Gioia, Denis Donoghue, Billy Collins, Geordie Greig, and Christopher Ricks. Interest in his work picked up considerably in 2005 when New and Selected Poems was published by the Library of America as part of the American Poets project, after the author received the Library of America as part of the American Poets project, after the author received the Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation

Talisman House Pub

New and Selected Poems

Bloodaxe Books

Samuel Menashe (1925-2011) was the first recipient of The Poetry Foundation's Neglected 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.

Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems, Expanded Edition (American Poets Project)

Genre Fiction

Library of America

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Collected Poems

Collected Poems

The Shrine Whose Shape I Am: The Collected Poetry of Samuel Menashe

The Niche Narrows: New and Selected Poems

The Niche Narrows: New and Selected Poems

New and Selected Poems

Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems, Expanded Edition (American Poets Project)