Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barron, Jonathan N.
• Selinger, Eric Murphy.
• Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP

Description

xiii, 344 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

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

Series Statement

Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life

Uniform Title

Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > Jewish authors
• Jewish religious poetry, American
• American poetry > 20th century
• American poetry > Jewish authors > History and criticism
• Judaism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Jews > United States > Intellectual life
• Jews in literature
• American poetry
• Jews > Intellectual life
• Judaism and literature
• United States

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Poetry
• poetry.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.
• Poésie.

Note

• is gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

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 Wilner.
• Reflections. 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.

ISBN

• 1584650427
• 9781584650423
• 1584650435
• 9781584650430
• 1584654305 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

00025283

OCLC

• ocm43569437
• 43569437
• SCSB-8780891

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library