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SAMUEL MENASHE (poet and "accidental bohemian")
Posted: December 18th, 2005, 4:34 pm
by Zlatko Waterman
Samuel Menashe has created an unusual and eloquent style.
Read about this "accidental bohemian" in Greenwich Village-- where his apartment once cost him $29/month.
http://www.rattapallax.com/menashe_about_book2.htm
Some of his poems can be found here:
http://www.poemtree.com/Menashe.htm
but his work is plentiful on the Internet.
More poems by Samuel Menashe:
http://www.archipelago.org/vol8-4/menashe.htm
--Z
Posted: December 18th, 2005, 5:49 pm
by Artguy
Wow! I feel lifted above the fray for having drank his words...
Posted: December 22nd, 2005, 1:17 am
by Zlatko Waterman
I'm pleased you like Samuel Menashe's poems, A-G.
Here's a lovely miniature of his:
(paste)
My angels are dark
They are slaves in the market
But I see how beautiful they are
--Samuel Menashe
(1967)
Samuel Menashe reading in Los Angeles 3/12/06
Posted: March 10th, 2006, 8:40 pm
by Aminable
I thought you might want to know about this rare Los Angeles appearance by Samuel Menashe!
SAMUEL MENASHE
Sunday, March 12, 2:00 p.m.
$5 General
Free to Skirball Members and Students
Advance tickets: (866) 468-3399 or (service charges apply) or at the Skirball Admissions Desk
Member reservations required: (310) 440-4692
Samuel Menashe is a master of the short poem. His concise works, alternately joyous and sorrowful, are religious in nature and speak of his Jewish heritage. Mr. Menashe is the author of The Niche Narrows, Fringe of Fire, No Jerusalem But This, and New and Selected Poems. In 2004, he received the Poetry Foundation's first Neglected Masters Award, designed to bring renewed critical attention to the work of an under-recognized, significant American poet.
Skirball Cultural Center - 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
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