Schtick : "these are the poems, people" / Kevin Coval.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coval, Kevin.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--United States--Poetry.

Jews.

United States--Ethnic relations--Poetry.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poet Kevin Coval offers both tragedy and comedy in this stirring exposition on the Jewish American cultural experience.

Contents:

Praise for Kevin Coval and L-vis Lives!; schtick: an arse poetica; א aleph א; kike; trans(atlantic)lation; chosen; mezuzah; midrash of the body; semite; ben א; the family business; the singer of songs; on becoming a man; schtick (at eric's bar mitzvah); the speech i should've written OR, the poem i said i would write for his 22nd bornday OR, something for my brother at 32; At the Passover Seder; ode to the gefilte fish; hamotzi on thanksgiving; Rosh Hashanah in the Suburbs OR, in the assimilated diaspora, it is still the new year! OR, my brother cuts an apple, Shana Tova!; writing

assimilation & its dis/contentstreif; why jews celebrate christmas; a christmas tale writes itself; no juden; Explaining Hanukkah; how jewish boys get irish names; allegory of the jewish boy served pork at his friend's restaurant; an american parody: in parts; un/doing the pyramids; making it, more or less; punch line; remembering baby: an american parody (in parts); Warhol Nose America; No Nose Job OR, How Humpty Put Me Back Together Again; see, for me, the bigger the nose the better; ode to the schnozz; Babs in Babylon; shiksas; shiksas

the merchant, the shiksa, and the american dream: the tropes of Debbie Does Dallasboxer; assimilation nightmare #1; assimilation nightmare #2; inheritance; the find; George; George speaks; passdown; midrash; schtick; Don Rickles Roasts Ronald Reagan; loaded; allen ginsberg gets expelled from columbia university for writing fuck the jews in dust on the windowsill of his dormitory; Dirty Names for Monica Lewinsky; Mean Woman; Nothing Sacred: Ode to Lenny Bruce; Midrash of Roseanne Singing the National Anthem; WWLBD; tuesdays with mel gibson; old testament one-liner (a חי coup)

passion of the kikenazi pope; henry ford wraps hitler's birthday present; strange bedfellows: for american jews who no longer hyphenate their identity, vote republican, and think christians are down for the maintenance of our people; Derrick Asks to See My Horns; on the charge of deicide; The Centurion Classic; deicide; the secret relationship between Blacks & jews; The Indefensible Al Jolson; on how jews became white; the white dream of irving berlin; blonde ambition; portrait with midrash of israel's favorite rapper; Avraham the Patriarch Was Black; The Break (Ocean Hill-Brownsville 1968)

Public Enemy #1Louis Farrakhan Plays Felix Mendelssohn; the secret relationship between Blacks and jews; jewtown; Don Rickles Roasts Sammy Davis Jr.; talisman; the holocaust calls for its orthonym; 48-hour ars poetica; all the pharoahs must fall; self-hating jewTM; what it's like to be the disagreeable grandson of zionists; why i stopped going to shul; explaining myself; Reflection on the Israeli Army Shutting Down the Palestine Festival of Literature in the Month of May in 2009: Burning Books, a Bebelplatz in Jerusalem; portrait of a slumlord; Now's the Time to Be Fresh; shiksa angel

all the pharaohs must fall

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-60846-288-9

OCLC:

841910107