by Hyam Plutzik
American Poets Continuum
Series
"The poems of Hyam Plutzik... deserve to be far more widely
known and admired than at present they are.... To the poems
originally collected in three volumes published during Plutzik's
lifetime are now added an impressively large collection of (previously
uncollected and unpublished) poems.... They exhibit all the
wit, warmth, curiosity, affection, and skill that over the years
made Hyam Plutzik a poet of such remarkable accomplishment....
And his gifts are of so distinct and admirable a sort as to
assure him of a large and responseive audience."
--
Anthony Hecht
The
Camorra
They
meet me at midday in implausible places;
They
strike at me with their daggers and when I cry out
I
am told there are no invisible highwaymen.
I
say that even at noon in the public streets
Where
crowds are chattering, fingers brush my throat
And
a whisper reveals the conspirators are here.
O
they plotted this before Adam was born,
To
track us like hounds till we falter at last and fall
Though
we laugh behind doors and wear clever disguises.
For
they were not all thrown in the burning gulf.
There
are those who remained behind and at convocations
Fawn
at the Lord and mumble the words of Hosannas.
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 0-918526-55-8
Price: $15.00
Publishing Date: January 1987
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