Bibliograph

Jewish American poetry, poems, commentary, and reflections, edited by Jonathan N. Barron and Eric Murphy Selinger

Type

Label

Jewish American poetry, poems, commentary, and reflections, edited by Jonathan N. Barron and Eric Murphy Selinger

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jewish American poetry

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

43569437

Responsibility statement

edited by Jonathan N. Barron and Eric Murphy Selinger

Series statement

Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life

Sub title

poems, commentary, and reflections

Summary

This informed and original anthology will become an invaluable source for both scholars and lovers of poetry. --Dana Gioia

Table Of Contents

Poems and commentary. From the cairo notebooks / Ammiel Alcalay -- Solidarity is the name we give to what we cannot hold / Charles Bernstein -- Don't tell the children / Chana Bloch -- The grandparent poems : self-reflection in a smoky mirror / Michael Castro -- Winter solstice / Marcia Falk -- Acher / Norman Finkelstein -- Parnassus / Albert Goldbarth -- How to do things with tears / Allen Grossman -- The boy / Marilyn Hacker -- The book of Yolek / Anthony Hecht -- At the new year / John Hollander -- Grandfather clause / Rodger Kamenetz -- For Anne at Passover / Maxine Kumin -- The Old Testament / Philip Levine -- Scattered psalms : XI (Dead men's praise) / Jacqueline Osherow -- The eighth and thirteenth / Alicia Suskin Ostriker -- Chaim Soutine / Bob Perelman -- Snowflakes, my mother called them / Marge Piercy -- Mu / Hilda Raz -- Nokh Aushvits (after Auschwitz) / Jerome Rothenberg -- Signs of the lost tribe / Howard Schwartz -- The bath / Alan Shapiro -- Sons / Hal Sirowitz -- Paris / Gerald Stern -- The vessel / C.K. Williams -- Miriam's song / Eleanor WilnerReflections. Learning, learning, learning : Jewish poetry in America / David Bleich -- Poets of the promised land, 1800-1920 / Steven J. Rubin -- Diasporic poetics / Michael Heller -- Commentary in contemporary Jewish American poetry / Jonathan N. Barron -- Shekhinah in America / Eric Murphy Selinger -- A flair for deviation : the troublesome potential of Jewish poetics / Maeera Shreiber -- Life, freedom, and memory : the poetry of Jewish American women / Janet Kaufman -- Heritage as detail and design in Sephardi American poetry / Diane Matza -- Di feder fun harts : tsveyshprakhikayt = The pen of the heart : bilingualism and American Jewish poetry / Irena Klepfisz -- Jews translating Jews / John Felstiner

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