Singing in a strange land
Subtitle: a Jewish American poetics
By: Maeera Y. Shreiber.
Series: Verbal art : studies in poetics
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804734295
Subjects: American poetry -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Jews in literature; Jews -- United States -- Identity; Group identity in literature; Literature and history -- United States; Judaism and literature -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Jewish trouble" and the trouble with poetry; title: "You still haven't finished with your mother" : the gendered poetics of Charles Reznikoff and Allen Ginsberg; title: "Speaking about epics" : Zukofsky, Oppen, history, and the "tale of the tribe"; title: "Where are we moored?" Adrienne Rich, Irena Klepfisz, lament, and its diasporic aftermath; title: "Unreachable father" : exploring the boundary between poetry and prayer; title: "Do not be content with an imaginary god" : poetry as a preface to prayer.