The lowercase Jew / Rodger Kamenetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamenetz, Rodger, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Poetry.

Jews.

Jewish religious poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

76 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, [2003]

Summary:

As dismissal and disdain of Jews speak through the art of some leading twentieth-century poets, so the poetry of Rodger Kamenetz artfully answers, framing in subtle terms the questions that haunt our culture-about the voices through which culture speaks, about the identity of poet and poetry, about the capacity of art to harm and to heal. Whether subjecting the anti-Semitic verses of T. S. Eliot to a literary trial; conjuring the eloquence with which "Allen Ginsberg forgives Ezra Pound on Behalf of the Jews"; or drawing upon personal history, the Torah, and Jewish mysticism to explore the tangled relations of Jewish identity and modern literature, Kamenetz's poems attest to the inexorable power of language. To view other titles by Roger Kamenetz, visit his web site: http: //literati.net/Kamenetz/KamenetzBooks.htm.

ISBN:

0810151510

0810151529

OCLC:

52197428