In this Book
- Apples from Shinar: A Book of Poems
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
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 With a previously unpublished foreword by Hyam Plutzik and a new afterword by David Scott Kastan, this edition marks the centenary of Plutzik's birth and will introduce a new generation of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.
Table of Contents
- TO MY DAUGHTER
- p. 5
- I AM DISQUIETED
- p. 6
- AS THE GREAT HORSE
- pp. 7-8
- THE OLD WAR
- p. 10
- THE PREMONITION
- p. 11
- JIM DESTERLAND
- pp. 12-13
- BEWARE, SAUNTERER
- p. 17
- THE AIRMAN WHO FLEW OVER
- pp. 18-19
- THE PRIEST EKRANATH
- pp. 20-22
- I IMAGINED A PAINTER
- p. 23
- THE ZERO THAT IS ALL
- p. 27
- FOR T.S.E. ONLY
- pp. 28-29
- AND IN THE 51ST YEAR
- p. 33
- MAN AND TREE
- p. 34
- TRIO FOR TWO VOICES AND A WOODWIND
- pp. 37-38
- THE MILKMAN
- p. 40
- THE LAST FISHERMAN
- p. 41
- THE SHEPHERD (from Horatio)
- pp. 42-59
- About the Authors
- p. 74