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Samuel Menashe was awarded the Poetry Foundation’s inaugural Neglected Masters award in 2004. He lives in New York City.


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Biographer
by Samuel Menashe

Authorized, booked
By my steadfast prose
The dead I ghost write
Shed shadows that shine
With hindsight, hearsay—
The last word is mine


 
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