Not One of Them in Place is the first book to examine the ways in which Jewish belief, thought, and culture have been shaped and articulated in modern American poetry. Based on the idea that recent American poetry has gravitated between two traditions—romantic and symbolist on the one hand, modernist and objectivist on the other—Norman Finkelstein provides a theoretical framework for reading the Jewish-American canon, as well as close readings of well known and less established poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky, Harvey Shapiro, Armand Schwerner, Hugh Seidman, and Michael Heller. Not One of Them in Place presents this poetry in a clear and nuanced style, paying equal attention to its historical and its aesthetic dimensions.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
The Traditions of Jewish American Poetry
1. Tradition and Modernity: Charles Reznikoff and the Test of (Jewish) Poetry
2. Jewish American Modernism and the Problem of Identity
With Special Reference to the Work of Louis Zukofsky
3. Allen Grossman’s Theophoric Poetics
4. Between Poland and Sumer: The Ethnopoetics of Jerome Rothenberg and Armand Schwerner
5. Objectivist Continuities: Harvey Shapiro, Michael Heller, Hugh Seidman
Afterword
Saying Kaddish: Holiness, Death, and the Jewish Difference in Poetry
Works Cited
Index
About the author
Norman Finkelstein is Professor of English at Xavier University. His previous works include two volumes of poetry,
Restless Messengers and
Track, and
The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature, also published by SUNY Press.
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