The Living End
Samuel Menashe, “The Living End” from Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems, edited by Christopher Ricks, published by The Library of America, 2005. Copyright © 2004 by Samuel Menashe. Used by permission of the author.
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Poet Samuel Menashe 1925–2011
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Subjects Midlife, Living, Disappointment & Failure
Biography
Samuel Menashe earned acclaim as the creator of numerous compact and precise poems. His first American volume, No Jerusalem But This, was praised by Stephen Spender for "language intense and clear as diamonds." Spender declared that Menashe "can compress an attitude to life that has an immense history into three lines."
To Open, Menashe's 1974 collection, impressed Christian Science Monitor critic Victor Howes with its . . .
Poems by Samuel Menashe
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SUBJECT Midlife, Living, Disappointment & Failure
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
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