| Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #17) Contributor(s): Menashe, Samuel (Author), Ricks, Christopher (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1931082855 ISBN-13: 9781931082853 Publisher: Library of America
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: October 2005 Annotation: Born in New York city in 1925, Samuel Menashe has practiced his art of compression and crystallization (in Derek Mahon's phrase) in poems that are brief in form but startingly 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. Samuel Menashe is the first recipient of the Neglected Masters Award established by The Poetry Foundation, and this volume is published in conjunction with that honor. Click for more in this series: American Poets Project |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2005044161 |
| Age Level: 18-UP |
| Grade Level: 13-UP |
| Series: American Poets Project |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 4.84" W x 7.88" L (0.60 lbs) 200 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
| Review Citations: New York Times 03/19/2006 pg. 14 Commonweal 12/04/2009 pg. 21 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
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