{"product_id":"samuel-menashe-samuel-menashe-9781931082853","title":"Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #17)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe most comprehensive collection available of Menashe's concise and powerfully suggestive poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the American Poets Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel Menashe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1931082855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781931082853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.88h x 4.84w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/19\/2006 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommonweal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/04\/2009 pg. 21","brand":"Samuel Menashe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46685703504127,"sku":"9781931082853","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9408d3d5-8960-48a1-9e0c-506e976e5c05.jpg?v=1741726510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/samuel-menashe-samuel-menashe-9781931082853","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}