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Rue
Samuel Menashe, “Rue” 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.
Source: Poetry (September 2004).
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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
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Growing Old, Death
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Allusion, Epigram, Alliteration, Consonance, Pastoral
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