Poetic Obituaries: "Most editors do not read poetry,"

he [Samuel Menashe] told the reference work Contemporary Authors in 1984. "The poetry editor is almost invariably the house poet or a person who is working with the interlocking directorate of establishment poets. Government censorship could not be more effective, but here you can't be sent to Siberia--you are just kept out of print."

His poetry collections included "Fringe of Fire" (1973), "To Open" (1974) and "Collected Poems," which the National Poetry Foundation published in 1986. After he received the Neglected Masters Award, the Library of America published the collection "Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems" in 2005, with an introduction by Christopher Ricks, another of his British admirers.

from The New York Times: Samuel Menashe, New York Poet of Short Verse, Dies at 85
then The Irish Times: US poet who lived for the here and now
then The Guardian: Samuel Menashe obituary

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