Creator Bio
Samuel Menashe
1925–2011
Poet Samuel Menashe was born and raised in New York City. He fought in World War II, studied at the Sorbonne, and returned to New York where he taught literature and writing. In 2004, Menashe received the inaugural Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Manna
Open your mouth
To feed that flesh
Your teeth have bled
Tongue us out
Bone by bone
Do not allow
Man to be fed
By bread alone
“And He afflicted thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with…