(New to) Great Regulars: But [Samuel] Menashe's poems

have definitely run against the grain of modernism or postmodernism. Short, tightly compressed and rhymed, they recall the intensity of William Blake's lyrics, and draw on a common source, the Bible. Some are midrashic, in the direct sense that they comment on biblical texts, including a recent verse published in The Hollins Critic that's short enough to quote here:

In the Beginning

from Rodger Kamenetz: The Arty Semite: The Consolations of Samuel Menashe

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