Title: Jerome Rothenberg's experimental poetry and Jewish tradition /
Authors: Meilicke, Christine A., 1968-
Publisher: Lehigh University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Rothenberg, Jerome, Criticism and interpretation.; Jewish religious poetry, American History and criticism.; Experimental poetry, American History and criticism.; Jews United States Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature United States.; Judaism in literature.; Jews in literature
Abstract: "This book examines the Jewish writing of the contemporary experimental poet Jerome Rothenberg. Exploring the interplay of American poetry and American Judaism, it demonstrates ways in which he contributes to the creation of an American Jewish avant-garde poetry and a contemporary Jewish diaspora identity." "Rothenberg's Jewish writing represents various trends in contemporary American and American Jewish writing, and in Jewish culture. It demonstrates the functions and strategies of the reappropriation of tradition."
Contents: "All poets are Jews" -- Rothenberg's reappropriation of Jewish mysticism -- Rothenberg's reappropriation of Jewish ritual -- A Jewish poetry of names, numbers, and letters -- Imagining history -- Poland/1931 : evading nostalgia -- Confronting the Holocaust : Khurbn and "14 stations" -- A Jewish ethnopoetics and experimental Jewish poetry.