[New-Poetry] CP Snow on Chas Rezinikoff

[Chris Stroffolino]

I saw CP Snow----and at first I thought it was CP show (a reference  
to my rock band, Continuous Peasant....)

I must be losin' it....


On Jul 12, 2006, at 3:45 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

> 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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