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Several years in the making, THE SHRINE WHOSE SHAPE I AM compiles all of Samuel Menashe's published poetry and his one short story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Menashean magic ordains that the more closely you examine these small poems, the more you find tucked into each of them. Menashe's prevailing tone of calm, urbane alertness leaves plenty of space for puckishness and puns, elegy and war, joy and grief, and of our shared human sense, universal but hard to put into words, of navigating through the world in a body.--Rachel Hadas \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMenashe's poems are as unique as the man himself. A flaneur of bohemian Manhattan (when such a place existed), he recited his poems to friends and acquaintances at the drop of a hat in an airy, lilting baritone. Lying on a rock in Central Park, he heard the 'a creak of oarlocks, ' and in his cold-water flat on Thompson Street he bemoaned the kitchen 'Where I do not eat \/ Where the bathtub stands \/ Upon cat feet--.' His New York was shot through with melancholy and a spiritual longing, at once Biblical and embodied. He is an essential American poet.--David Yezzi","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50101247050001,"sku":"CIN0997254718G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0997254718.jpg?v=1751141202"},{"product_id":"samuel-menashe-new-and-selected-poems-book-samuel-menashe-9781931082853","title":"Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems","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. 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