Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture / edited by Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Stephen Paul, 1951-

Morris, Daniel, 1962-

Series:

Modern and contemporary poetics.

Modern and contemporary poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Jews--United States--Identity.

Jews.

Judaism and literature--United States.

Judaism and literature.

Judaism and secularism.

Jewish poetry--United States--History and criticism.

Jewish poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"" --Franz Kafka Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition--specifically secular Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized religion, yet forever shaped by those traditions. This collection of essays is the first to ad

Contents:

Radical Jewish culture/secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein

Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer

The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg

Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman

Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman

Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer

On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein

An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman

Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman

Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster

"Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein

Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller

Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker

Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Secular Jewish culture and its radical poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein

Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke

"Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris

"Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff

Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch

Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink

Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller

Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger

A Jew in New York / Bob Holman

Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon

In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick

Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick

Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander

White / Paul Auster.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8516-9

OCLC:

648711521