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Samuel Menashe

New And Selected Poems

by Christopher Ricks

Hardcover, 191 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $20 |

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A collection of original and definitive poems, published in conjunction with the nineteenth-century American poet's receipt of The Poetry Foundation's first Neglected Masters Award, offers insight into his work's religious themes, musical and rigorous structure, and solitary meditative qualities.

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Samuel Menashe: A Poet Gets His Due

For 50 years, New York poet Samuel Menashe toiled away at his art in relative obscurity. But he recently received the first-ever Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, and now a wider audience is becoming acquainted with his simple but deeply reflective verse.

Samuel Menashe: A Poet Gets His Due

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