Contents
Acknowledgments
Meet the Preface / Stephen Paul Miller
Introduction / Daniel Morris
Radical 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
Contributors