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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Paul Miller is a professor at St. John's University. He is the author of five books of poems: The Bee Flies in May , Fort Dad, Being with a Bullet, Skinny Eighth Avenue and Art is Boring for the Same Reason We Stayed in Vietnam . He is also the author of The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance , and coeditor of Scene of My Selves: New Work on the New York School Poets . Daniel Morris is the author of The Poetry of Louise Glück: A Thematic Introduction , Poetry's Poet: Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Allen Grossman , Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors Write on Modern Art , and The Writings of William Carlos Williams: Publicity for the Self . He is also editor of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies . Contributors: Paul Auster / Merle L. Bachman / Charles Bernstein / Charlie Bertsch / Maria Damon/ Rachel Blau DuPlessis / Amy Feinstein / Thomas Fink / Norman Finkelstein / Norman Fischer / Benjamin Friedlander / Michael Heller / Kathryn Hellerstein / Bob Holman / Adeena Karasick / Hank Lazer / Stephen Paul Miller / Daniel Morris / Ranen Omer-Sherman / Alicia Ostriker / Bob Perelman / Marjorie Perloff / Jerome Rothenberg / Meg Schoerke / Joshua Schuster / Eric Murphy Selinger Klappentext This collection of essays is the first to address this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry: the secular Jewish dimension. Editors Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller asked their contributors to address what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as "secular," and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. These poets and critics address these questions by exploring the legacy of those poets who preceded and influenced them--Stein, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, Oppen, and Ginsberg, among others. Zusammenfassung No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition - specifically secular Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized religion! yet forever shaped by those traditions. This title addresses this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry. ...
