Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

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Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY POETICS Series Editors Charles Bernstein Hank Lazer Series Advisory Board Maria Damon Rachel Blau DuPlessis Alan Golding Susan Howe Nathaniel Mackey Jerome McGann Harryette Mullen Aldon Nielsen Marjorie Perloff Joan Retallack Ron Silliman Jerry Ward Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture Edited by Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa Copyright © 2010 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Typeface: Minion and Goudy Sans ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture / edited by Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris. p. cm. — (Modern and contemporary poetics) ISBN 978-0-8173-1675-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8173-5563-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American poetry—Jewish authors—History and criticism. 2. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism. 3. American poetry—21st century— History and criticism. 4. Jews—United States—Identity. 5. Judaism and literature— United States. 6. Judaism and secularism. 7. Jewish poetry—United States—History and criticism. I. Miller, Stephen Paul. II. Morris, Daniel. PS153.J4R33 2010 811'.54098924—dc22 2009020576 For Emma Bee Bernstein, Joy, Isaac, Aaron, and Hannah Morris, and Noah Miller, Rabbi Burt Seigel, Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, Cameron McLinden, William Kwok, and Dominick Casazza ...