Published for the 60th anniversary of the Plutzik Poetry Series at the University of Rochester, and with a Foreword by Edward Hirsch, "The Seventh Avenue Express" marks the first time Hyam Plutzik's 1934-35 poem, written at age 23, has been seen in print.

Critical Praise for “Seventh Avenue Express”:

"Plutzik’s language is seething and elevated. He starts out somewhat calmly, but the seeming objectivity soon gives way to a more tortured and subjective diction. Plutzik did not write in the American grain, like William Carlos Williams. His music is closer to the noble blank verse of the English Romantics. He places himself in the modern American Romantic line, the realm of Stevens and Crane, to peer through the darkness to describe 'a strange cosmopolis'."

-- Edward Hirsch - Foreword, "The Seventh Avenue Express": A Celebration of the Plutzik Poetry Series 1962-2022 at the University of Rochester, 2022