Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture
By: edited by Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris.
Contributors: Miller, Stephen Paul.; Morris, Daniel.
Series: Modern and contemporary poetics
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780817316754; 9780817355630
Subjects: American poetry -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Jews -- United States -- Identity; Judaism and literature -- United States; Judaism and secularism; Jewish poetry -- United States -- History and criticism
Table of contents: title: Radical Jewish culture-secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein; title: Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer; title: The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg; title: Louis Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman; title: Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman; title: Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer; title: On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein; title: An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman; title: Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman; title: Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster; title: "Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein; title: Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller; title: Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker; title: Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau Duplessis; title: Secular Jewish culture and its racial poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein; title: Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke; title: "Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris; title: Sound scraps, vision scraps: Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff; title: Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch; title: Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink; title: Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller; title: Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger; title: A Jew in New York / Bob Holman; title: Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon; title: In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick; title: Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick; title: Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander; title: White / Paul Auster.