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.

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