In Your Face

By Samuel Menashe

Eyes that spurn yet invite

Like spikes in the sunlight

Of Manhattan’s high-rise—

Babylon’s ladies outshine

Daughters of Jerusalem,

Zion is no easy climb

Source: Poetry (September 2009)

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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...

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