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9781584980124
Poetry. Menashe has devoted his entire poetic career (beginning with the publication of his first book, The Many Named Beloved, in 1961) to perfecting the short poem -- not the conventional short poem of 20 to 40 lines beloved of magazine editors, but the very short poem. As anyone surveying his COLLECTED POEMS (1986) will discover, few of his poems are longer than 10 lines. Stephen Spender notes that Menashe compresses thought into language intense and clear as diamonds.Samuel Menashe is the author of 'The Niche Narrows: New and Selected Poems', published 2000 under ISBN 9781584980124 and ISBN 1584980125.
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