Samuel Menashe : New and Selected Poems

by Menashe, Samuel

• ISBN13: 9781931082853
• ISBN10: 1931082855
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-06
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Giving the day its due
The poets on Samuel Menashe
Voyage	p. 1
Sheen	p. 2
O many named beloved	p. 3
A-	p. 4
Roads run forever	p. 5
Autumn	p. 6
November	p. 7
All my friends are homeless	p. 8
Winter	p. 9
The dead of winter	p. 10
Warrior wisdom	p. 11
I lie in snows	p. 12
Between bare boughs	p. 13
January to July	p. 14
Downpour	p. 15
April	p. 16
Transfusion	p. 17
The moment of your death	p. 18
The bare tree	p. 19
Pity us	p. 21
She who saw the moon lat night	p. 22
Fall	p. 23
The host	p. 24
Grief	p. 25
Epitaph	p. 26
Landmark	p. 27
Still life	p. 28
Triptych	p. 29
Life is immense	p. 30
Enclosure	p. 31
In memoriam	p. 32
The offering	p. 33
Full fathom five	p. 34
Memento mori	p. 35
Forever and a day	p. 36
Family plot	p. 37
The friends of my father	p. 38
These stone steps	p. 39
Self employed	p. 40
In my digs	p. 41
Curriculum vitae	p. 42
At a standstill	p. 43
The oracle	p. 44
Nightfall, morning	p. 45
On the level	p. 46
Tenement spring	p. 47
Windows : old widow	p. 48
Heat wave	p. 49
Off the wall	p. 50
At Millay's grave	p. 51
Le lac secret	p. 52
Always	p. 53
Take any man	p. 54
Telescoped	p. 55
Twilight	p. 56
Enlightenment	p. 57
Old mirror	p. 58
Mirror image	p. 59
Pirate	p. 60
Infant, old man	p. 61
Paradise - after Giovanni di Paolo	p. 62
Shade	p. 63
Just now	p. 64
Gray boulder	p. 65
Adam means Earth	p. 66
Leah bribed Jacob	p. 67
Reeds rise from water	p. 68
Paschal wilderness	p. 69
Manna	p. 70
Stone would be water	p. 71
Promised land	p. 72
If I were as lean as I feel	p. 73
The shrine whose shape I am	p. 74
My angels are dark	p. 75
As the tall, turbaned	p. 76
The hill I see	p. 77
My mother's grave	p. 78
Dreaming	p. 79
Hallelujah	p. 80
The annunciation	p. 81
The abandoned one	p. 82
O lady lonely as a stone -	p. 83
Sparrow	p. 84
The scrutiny	p. 85
Rural sunrise	p. 86
Sudden shadow	p. 87
Awakening from dreams	p. 88
The hollow of morning	p. 89
Norway	p. 90
I left my seed in a grove so deep	p. 91
Pagan poem	p. 92
Fastness	p. 93
Landscape	p. 94
Dusk	p. 95
Pastoral	p. 96
Moon night	p. 97
Ruins	p. 98
Old as the hills	p. 99
Twilight blues	p. 100
In stride	p. 101
Night walk	p. 102
Petals	p. 103
Bearings	p. 104
The room of my friend	p. 105
Waterfall	p. 106
A flock of little boats	p. 107
Eaves at dusk	p. 108
Star-crossed	p. 109
Western wind	p. 110
The sandpiper	p. 111
On my birthday	p. 112
Sketches : by the sea	p. 113
Dominion	p. 114
So they stood	p. 115
Beachhead	p. 116
Passive resistance	p. 117
Peaceful purposes	p. 118
Survival	p. 119
White hair does not weigh	p. 120
Walking stick	p. 121
To open	p. 122
Scissors	p. 123
I am the hive	p. 124
Pan's work is done	p. 125
Achilles	p. 126
Lust puffs up	p. 127
A pot poured out	p. 128
Spur of the moment	p. 129
Simon says	p. 130
Using the window ledge	p. 131
Peace	p. 132
The reservoir	p. 133
Sheep meadow	p. 134
Sunset, Central Park	p. 135
Carnival	p. 136
All things that heal	p. 137
Night music	p. 138
Daily bread	p. 139
Ghost in the wake	p. 140
Another song of sixpence	p. 141
Infanta	p. 142
Small kingdom	p. 143
Salt and pepper	p. 144
Family silver	p. 145
Improvidence	p. 146
Dinner	p. 147
At cross purposes	p. 148
Fire dance	p. 149
Cargo	p. 150
Transplant	p. 151
The living end	p. 152
Night watch	p. 153
Sleep	p. 154
Dreams	p. 155
Home movie	p. 156
Inklings	p. 157
What to expect	p. 158
The visitation	p. 159
Red glints in black hair	p. 160
A bronze head	p. 161
Anonymous	p. 162
Eyes	p. 163
Awakening	p. 164
Someone walked over my grave	p. 165
The niche	p. 166
Whose name I know	p. 167
The sprite of delight	p. 168
The sea staves	p. 169
Descent	p. 170
Commemoration	p. 171
Skull	p. 172
Scribe, condemned	p. 173
"Make it new"	p. 174
Diner	p. 175
R and R	p. 176
Heat wave	p. 177
Apotheosis	p. 178
The stars are	p. 179
In the ring	p. 180
Rest in peace	p. 181
Captain, captive	p. 182
Rue	p. 183
Here	p. 184
Due soldi di speranza	p. 185
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