Apples From Shinar: A Book of Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Classics)

A special centenary edition of this American poet's critically acclaimed collection 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 With a previously unpublished foreword by Hyam Plutzik and a new afterword by David Scott Kastan, this edition marks the centenary of Plutzik's birth and will introduce a new generation of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. Cover......Page 1 APPLES FROM SHINAR......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 CONTENTS......Page 7 PREFACE......Page 10 BECAUSE THE RED OSIER DOGWOOD......Page 14 THE DREAM ABOUT OUR MASTER......Page 15 TO MY DAUGHTER......Page 16 I AM DISQUIETED......Page 17 AS THE GREAT HORSE......Page 18 IF CAUSALITY IS IMPOSSIBLE......Page 20 THE OLD WAR......Page 21 THE PREMONITION......Page 22 JIM DESTERLAND......Page 23 AFTER LOOKING INTO A BOOK......Page 25 THE GEESE......Page 26 THE MYTHOS OF SAMUEL HUNTSMAN......Page 27 BEWARE, SAUNTERER......Page 28 THE AIRMAN WHO FLEW OVER......Page 29 THE PRIEST EKRANATH......Page 31 I IMAGINED A PAINTER......Page 34 THE BASS......Page 35 THE IMPORTANCE OF POETRY......Page 36 WINTER, NEVER MIND WHERE......Page 37 THE ZERO THAT IS ALL......Page 38 FOR T.S.E. ONLY......Page 39 A NEW EXPLANATION OF THE QUIETUDE......Page 41 PORTRAIT......Page 42 REQUIEM FOR EDWARD CARRIGH......Page 43 AND IN THE 51ST YEAR......Page 44 MAN AND TREE......Page 45 OF OBJECTS CONSIDERED AS FORTRESSES......Page 46 A PHILOSOPHER ON A MOUNTAIN......Page 47 TRIO FOR TWO VOICES AND A WOODWIND......Page 48 THE MYTHOS OF THE MAN FROM ENOCH......Page 50 THE MILKMAN......Page 51 THE LAST FISHERMAN......Page 52 THE SHEPHERD (from Horatio)......Page 53 AFTERWORD BY DAVID SCOTT KASTAN......Page 72 <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>