Research Catalog

Title

Memory and fire : ten American Jewish poets / Gary Pacernick.

Author

Pacernick, Gary.

Publication

New York : P. Lang, c1989.

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Details

Description

xii, 259 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Twentieth century American Jewish writers ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Twentieth century American Jewish writers ; v. 1.

Subject

• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• American poetry > History and criticism
• Jewish religious poetry, American > History and criticism
• Jews > United States > Intellectual life
• Jews in literature
• Judaism and literature > United States
• Judaism in literature
• Memory in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Charles Reznikoff: personal and documentary memory -- Jerome Rothenberg: mythic memory -- Karl Shapiro: memory loss and marginality -- Louis Simpson: narrative memory -- Louis Zukofsky: patriarchal memory -- Allen Ginsberg: prophet of apocalypse -- David Ignatow: prophet of darkness and nothingness -- Philip Levine: prophet of oneness -- Howard Nemerov: prophet of divine signatures -- Muriel Rukeyser: prophet of social and political justice -- Conclusion.

ISBN

0820404195 :

LCCN

^^^88026658^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library