Stephanie Burt is a professor of English at Harvard University and the author of several books, including Belmont: Poems (Graywolf Press) and the forthcoming After Callimachus: Poems (Princeton University Press). This essay appears as the foreword to The Shrine Whose Shape I Am: The Collected Poetry of Samuel Menashe (Audubon Terrace Press). Used by permission.
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