[New-Poetry] CP Snow on Chas Rezinikoff

[JforJames at aol.com]

C.P. Snow, in his introduction to Reznikoff's By the Waters of  Manhattan 
observes:  
Mr. Reznikoff's writing, so far as a Gentile can judge, is in all  senses 
deeply Jewish....[T]here is for me running through his writing the  threads of 
the Jewish loneliness, the Jewish delight in God's gifts, and the  Jewish 
triumph. He conveys, as sharply as I have ever seen conveyed in any  writing about 
New York, the feeling of the lonely soul in the great city...  
He is a deep, sarcastic, lonely writer. So far as I know, he is a  writer 
quite on his own. 
[C.P. Snow, "Introduction," to Charles Reznikoff, By the  Waters of Manhattan 
ix-xi, at xi (New York: New Directions, 1962)] 
 


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