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By Samuel Menashe

Revives a relic

Liquefies dry blood

Touches a corpse

To the quick

Converts a monster to love—

Who made man from mud

Source: Poetry (November 2010)

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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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