Twilight

Born in New York City in 1925, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. He served in the US infantry during the Second World War, and afterwards studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. He returned to New York in the 1950s and had frequent sojourns in Britain, Ireland, and Europe. He was first published in Britain in 1961 though he remained unpublished in the US. In 1996 a selection of his work was published in the Penguin Modern Poets series. In 2004, he became the first winner of the Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Award, a prize that pays tribute to his excellence and acknowledged the years in which his achievements were overlooked. His New and Selected Poems, edited by Christopher Ricks, was published by the Library of America in 2005. An expanded edition, published with Life Is Immense: Visiting Samuel Menashe, a film on DVD by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2009. Sadly, Samuel Menache died in August 2011.