Apples from Shinar

A Book of Poems

Hyam Plutzik, David Scott Kastan

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780819571670
• eBook ISBN:
  9780819571687
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

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 With a previously unpublished foreword by Hyam Plutzik and a new afterword by David Scott Kastan, this edition marks the centenary of Plutzik's birth and will introduce a new generation of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

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Because the Red Osier Dogwood
• The Dream About Our Master
• To my Daughter
• I am Disquieted
• As the Great Horse
• If Causality is Impossible
• The Old War
• The Premonition
• Jim Desterland
• After Looking into a Book
• The Geese
• The Mythos of Samuel Huntsman
• Beware, Saunterer
• The Airman Who Flew Over
• The Priest Ekranath
• I Imagined a Painter
• The Bass
• The Importance of Poetry
• Winter, Never Mind Where
• The Zero that is all
• For T.S.E. Only
• A New Explanation of the Quietude
• Portrait
• Requiem for Edward Carrigh
• And in the 51st Year
• Man and Tree
• Of Objects Considered as Fortresses
• A Philosopher on a Mountain
• Trio For two Voices and a Woodwind
• The Mythos of the Man from Enoch
• The Milkman
• The Last Fisherman
• The Shepherd (from Horatio)
• Afterword by David Scott Kastan