Singing in a strange land : a Jewish American poetics / Maeera Y. Shreiber.

Author/Creator:

Shreiber, Maeera, 1956-

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Series:

Verbal art

Format/Description:

Book
xi, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

American poetry -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
Jews in literature.
Jews -- United States -- Identity.
Group identity in literature.
Literature and history -- United States.
Judaism and literature -- United States.

Contents:

"Jewish trouble" and the trouble with poetry
"You still haven't finished with your mother" : the gendered poetics of Charles Reznikoff and Allen Ginsberg
"Speaking about epics" : Zukofsky, Oppen, history, and the "tale of the tribe"
"Where are we moored?" Adrienne Rich, Irena Klepfisz, lament, and its diasporic aftermath
"Unreachable father" : exploring the boundary between poetry and prayer
"Do not be content with an imaginary God" : poetry as a preface to prayer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.

ISBN:

9780804734295 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0804734291 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

86172962

Online:

Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007012058.html

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