APPLES FROM SHINAR
APPLES FROM SHINAR
A Book of Poems by
HYAM PLUTZIK
SPECIAL EDITION
With Afterword byDavid Scott Kastan
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown CT 06459
Poems © 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959
Estate of Hyam Plutzik
Preface of 2011 edition © 2011 Estate of Hyam Plutzik
Afterword by David Scott Kastan © 2011 Wesleyan University Press
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Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications in which some of these poems first appeared: Accent, The American Scholar, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Epoch, Fifteen Modern American Poets by George P. Elliott, Furioso, The Hopkins Review, New World Writing No. 8, Prairie Schooner, Saturday Review, The Sewanee Review, The Transatlantic Review, and Yale Review.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011924376
ISBN 978-0-8195-7167-0
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TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER
CONTENTS
A NEW EXPLANATION OF THE QUIETUDE
OF OBJECTS CONSIDERED AS FORTRESSES
TRIO FOR TWO VOICES AND A WOODWIND
