Review of The Shrine Whose Shape I Am: The Collected Poetry of Samuel Menashe

At Rhino.


Teaser quote:
Here’s a strange case: Samuel Menashe. A kind of public weirdo for fifty years, very bumptious, showing up to lectures in Manhattan and asking rude questions, republishing the same hundred poems over and over, each one the size of a postage stamp.… Most people answering this description have no merit and cannot write poetry. Menashe, somehow, could.

[originally posted Saturday 8 February 2020]