Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Merle Bachman’s essay “An ‘Exotic’ on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the Paradoxes of Yiddish Modernist Poetry” originally appeared in different form in her book Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American Literature (Syracuse University Press, 2007). Marjorie Perloff’s essay“‘Sound Scraps,Vision Scraps’: Paul Celan’s Poetic Practice”originally appeared in Reading for Form, edited by Susan J.Wolfson and Marshall Brown (University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2007). The essays by Charles Bernstein,Jerome Rothenberg,Kathryn Hellerstein, and Stephen Paul Miller originated as a presentation,“Secular Jewish Culture / Radical Poetic Practice,”a panel at the Center for Jewish History,16 West Sixteenth Street, New York City, New York 10011, on September 21, 2004. The authors wish to thank Purdue University and St. John’s University for providing funds to support this publication. Debbie Self, Ruth Joynton, and Nick Mohlman did a great job with editing and proofing. Cameron Xavier McLinden did the index in a timely fashion. ...