Not One of Them in Place
Subtitle: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780791449837
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Jewish authors; Jewish American Poetry; Poetry; United States; Literary Criticism; USA; Jews; American - General; American poetry; 20th century; History and criticism; Intellectual life
Description: "Not One of Them in Place is the first book to examine the ways in which Jewish belief, thought, and culture have been shaped and articulated in modern American poetry.

Based on the idea that recent American poetry has gravitated between two traditions - romantic and symbolist on the one hand, modernist and objectivist on the other - Norman Finkelstein provides a theoretical framework for reading the Jewish-American canon, as well as close readings of well known and less established poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky, Harvey Shapiro, Armand Schwerner, Hugh Seidman, and Michael Heller.

Not One of Them in Place presents this poetry in a clear and nuanced style, paying equal attention to its historical and its aesthetic dimensions."--BOOK JACKET.