<P>Apples from Shinar was Hyam Plutzik’s second complete collection. Originally published in 1959 as a part of Wesleyan University Press’s newly minted poetry series, the collection includes ‘The Shepherd’—a section of the book-length poem ‘Horatio, ‘ which earned Plutzik a finalist position for the Pulitzer Prize. ‘The love and the words and the simplicity, ‘ that mark Plutzik’s poetry, writes Philip Booth, ‘are all here [in Apples from Shinar], and the poems come peacefully, and wonderfully, alive.’ With a previously unpublished foreword by Hyam Plutzik and a new afterword by David Scott Kastan, this edition marks the centenary of Plutzik’s birth and will introduce a new generation of readers to the work of one of the best mid-century American poets.</P>
Table of Content
<P>Preface<BR>Because the Red Osier Dogwood<BR>The Dream About Our Master<BR>To My Daughter<BR>I am Disquieted<BR>As the Great Horse<BR>If Casualty is Impossible<BR>The Old War<BR>The Premonition<BR>Jim Desterland<BR>After Looking into a Book<BR>The Geese<BR>The Mythos of Samuel Huntsman<BR>Beware, Saunterer<BR>The Airman Who Flew Over<BR>The Priest Ekranath<BR>I Imagined a Painter<BR>The Bass<BR>The Importance of Poetry<BR>Winter, Never Mind Where<BR>The Zero That is All<BR>For T.S.E. Only<BR>A New Explanation of the Quietude<BR>Portrait<BR>Requiem for Edward Carrigh<BR>And in the 51st Year<BR>Man and Tree<BR>Of Objects Considered as Fortresses<BR>A Philosopher on a Mountain<BR>Trio for Two Voices and a Woodwind<BR>The Mythos of the Man From Enoch<BR>The Milkman<BR>The Last Fisherman<BR>The Shepherd (from Horatio)<BR>Afterword by David Scott Kastan</P>
About the author
<P>HYAM PLUTZIK (1911–1962) was the Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry at the University of Rochester. The author of six volumes of poetry, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. DAVID SCOTT KASTAN is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University and one of the most widely read of American literary scholars.</P>
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