LEADER 05396nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910785055503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8516-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000030162 035 $a(EBL)547620 035 $a(OCoLC)648711521 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000458398 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11318621 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458398 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10439712 035 $a(PQKB)10945121 035 $a(OCoLC)680620783 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9346 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL547620 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408832 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC547620 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000030162 100 $a20090519d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aRadical poetics and secular Jewish culture$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (474 p.) 225 1 $aModern and contemporary poetics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1675-2 311 $a0-8173-5563-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRadical 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. 330 $a""What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"" --Franz Kafka Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition--specifically secular Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized religion, yet forever shaped by those traditions. This collection of essays is the first to ad 410 0$aModern and contemporary poetics. 606 $aAmerican poetry$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican poetry$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xIdentity 606 $aJudaism and literature$zUnited States 606 $aJudaism and secularism 606 $aJewish poetry$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 615 0$aJudaism and literature 615 0$aJudaism and secularism. 615 0$aJewish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a811/.54098924 701 $aMiller$b Stephen Paul$f1951-$01494388 701 $aMorris$b Daniel$f1962-$01537646 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785055503321 996 $aRadical poetics and secular Jewish culture$93787064 997 $aUNINA