Poetic Obituaries: [Samuel] Menashe was the first poet to

receive the Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation, which he recieved in 2004. To accompany the award, "Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems," edited by Christopher Ricks, was published by the Library of America. Reviewing the book in the New York Times, David Orr wrote:

Menashe is a curious and meticulous writer--the poems here are no longer than a page, most have very short lines, they're either unpunctuated or very carefully and lightly punctuated, and they rely on tricky rhyme and assonance schemes to carry observations that Ricks describes as "apophthegms" and a nonprofessor might call "proverbs."

from Los Angeles Times: Jacket Copy: Poet Samuel Menashe has died

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