Samuel Menashe (from Life is IMMENSE) from tribute website examples Watch Video
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Description: Samuel Menashe’s poetry has a mysterious simplicity, a spiritual intensity and a lingering emotional force. For the past 50 years he has practised his art of ‘compression and crystallisation’ (in Derek Mahon’s phrase) in poems that are brief in form but profound in their engagement with ultimate questions. As Stephen Spender wrote, Menashe ‘compresses thought into language intense and clear as diamonds’. This video is an excerpt from LIFE IS IMMENSE: VISITING SAMUEL MENASHE, a film b
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