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Zusatztext 86706900 Informationen zum Autor Kevin Coval is the author of ALA "Book of the Year" finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica, Everyday People, and most recently, L-vis Lives! Racemusic Poems. Founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival, Coval is the Artistic Director of Young Chicago Authors. He is a regular contributor to WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and teaches creative-writing at schools across the city. Klappentext Poet Kevin Coval offers both tragedy and comedy in this stirring exposition on the Jewish American cultural experience. Vorwort Advance review copies available National drive-time radio tour Local TV, radio, and print interview, features, and reviews Major Chicago book launch "bar mitvah" event at Second City Chicago with Louder than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival Features in Heeb, Zeek, Jewcy Advertising in various Jewish and Poetry publications and websites Excerpts in Tikkun, Progressive.org, Mondoweiss, Nation.com Published to coincide with April National Poetry Month, Passover Seder, Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Teen Poetry Festival Promotion on the author's websites, www.kevincoval.com, www.youngchicagoauthors.org, www.newschoolpoetics.com Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Zusammenfassung Poet Kevin Coval offers both tragedy and comedy in this stirring exposition on the Jewish American cultural experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. gensis or(-igin) bars translation on disaporism chosen semite kike midrash of the body mezuzah two portraits of the wandering jew ben shtick: an arse poetica dvarim kol nidre 2. fam on becoming a man shtick at e’s bar-mitzvah the speech’s at E’s bar-mitzvah Not Kane midrash of my parents doomed marriage at the passover seder ode to gelfite fish hamotzi Rosh Hashanah in the suburbs writing on Yom Kippur my father is a tzaddik midrash chicago fire 3. assimlation and its discontents treif no juden the parables of jesus explaining hanuka why we may wish to be white lost at the seder table diaspora or ennui Derrick Game Over allegory of the jewish how jewish boys get irish names 4. shiksas portnoy’s complaint shiksas debbie does assimilation nightmare 1 assimilation nightmare 2 diamonds inheritance 5. an american parody in parts undoing the pyramids joyce nose job poem punch line-mom nose job remembering baby Warhol nose america boxer no nose job Babs bird ode to the schnozz yacub’s theory 6. shtick al jolson the cabal of x-ian names monica lewinsky allen ginsberg nothing sacred- lenny bruce ode Mean Woman Joan Rivers thanking G-d later-Drake sid ceaser l’art of silence Roseanne wwLBd the white dream of irving berlin Don Rickels roasts Ronald Reagan 7. tuesdays with mel gibson old testament one liner (a hai coup) The Centurion Classic nazi pope henry ford wraps hitlers assimilation nightmare #4 strange bedfellows: quisling- joe liberman hill billy bob’s plan of action passion of the kike season’s greetings on the charge of deicide deicide 8. blacks & jews on how jews became white matzah is a big ass cracker The Break(oceanhill) assimilation nightmare #3 easta time matisyayu as the jazz singer portrait of israel’s favorite rapper blonde ambition unlearning the hard way jesse jackson/ tailsman public enemy #1 Louis Farrakhan the serect relationshop between Blacks and jews the conversion of Sammy Don Rickels roasts Sammy Davis jewtown 48 hours ars poetica the holocaust calls for its orthonym Avraham, The Parriarch was Bl...
