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 With a previously unpublished foreword by Hyam Plutzik and a new afterword by David Scott Kastan, this edition marks the centenary of Plutzik's birth and will introduce a new generation of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 APPLES FROM SHINAR Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS PREFACE BECAUSE THE RED OSIER DOGWOOD THE DREAM ABOUT OUR MASTER TO MY DAUGHTER I AM DISQUIETED AS THE GREAT HORSE IF CAUSALITY IS IMPOSSIBLE THE OLD WAR THE PREMONITION JIM DESTERLAND AFTER LOOKING INTO A BOOK THE GEESE THE MYTHOS OF SAMUEL HUNTSMAN BEWARE, SAUNTERER THE AIRMAN WHO FLEW OVER THE PRIEST EKRANATH I IMAGINED A PAINTER THE BASS THE IMPORTANCE OF POETRY WINTER, NEVER MIND WHERE THE ZERO THAT IS ALL FOR T.S.E. ONLY A NEW EXPLANATION OF THE QUIETUDE PORTRAIT REQUIEM FOR EDWARD CARRIGH AND IN THE 51ST YEARMAN AND TREE OF OBJECTS CONSIDERED AS FORTRESSES A PHILOSOPHER ON A MOUNTAIN TRIO FOR TWO VOICES AND A WOODWIND THE MYTHOS OF THE MAN FROM ENOCH THE MILKMAN THE LAST FISHERMAN THE SHEPHERD (from Horatio) AFTERWORD BY DAVID SCOTT KASTAN <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 With a previously unpublished foreword by Hyam Plutzik and a new afterword by David Scott Kastan, this edition marks the centenary of Plutzik's birth and will introduce a new generation of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>