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The Lowercase Jew
Northwestern University Press, 2003 eISBN: 978-0-8101-2206-2 | Paper: 978-0-8101-5152-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-5151-2 Library of Congress Classification PS3561.A4172L68 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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As dismissal and disdain of Jews speak through the art of some leading twentieth-century poets, so the poetry of Rodger Kamenetz artfully answers, framing in subtle terms the questions that haunt our culture-about the voices through which culture speaks, about the identity of poet and poetry, about the capacity of art to harm and to heal. Whether subjecting the anti-Semitic verses of T. S. Eliot to a literary trial; conjuring the eloquence with which "Allen Ginsberg forgives Ezra Pound on Behalf of the Jews"; or drawing upon personal history, the Torah, and Jewish mysticism to explore the tangled relations of Jewish identity and modern literature, Kamenetz's poems attest to the inexorable power of language.
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The Lowercase Jew
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Northwestern University Press, 2003
eISBN: 978-0-8101-2206-2
Paper: 978-0-8101-5152-9
Cloth: 978-0-8101-5151-2
eISBN: 978-0-8101-2206-2
Paper: 978-0-8101-5152-9
Cloth: 978-0-8101-5151-2
As dismissal and disdain of Jews speak through the art of some leading twentieth-century poets, so the poetry of Rodger Kamenetz artfully answers, framing in subtle terms the questions that haunt our culture-about the voices through which culture speaks, about the identity of poet and poetry, about the capacity of art to harm and to heal. Whether subjecting the anti-Semitic verses of T. S. Eliot to a literary trial; conjuring the eloquence with which "Allen Ginsberg forgives Ezra Pound on Behalf of the Jews"; or drawing upon personal history, the Torah, and Jewish mysticism to explore the tangled relations of Jewish identity and modern literature, Kamenetz's poems attest to the inexorable power of language.
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