Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry by Dara Barnat (English) P

Description: Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry by Dara Barnat Presents a genealogy of Jewish American poets in dialogue with Walt Whitman, and with each other, and reveals how the lineage of Jewish American poets responding to Whitman extends far beyond the likes of Allen Ginsberg. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Walt Whitman has served as a crucial figure within the tradition of Jewish American poetry. But how did Whitman, a non-Jewish, American-born poet, become so instrumental in this area of poetry, especially for poets whose parents, and often they themselves, were not "born here?" Dara Barnat presents a genealogy of Jewish American poets in dialogue with Whitman, and with each other, and reveals how the lineage of Jewish American poets responding to Whitman extends far beyond the likes of Allen Ginsberg. From Emma Lazarus and Adah Isaacs Menken, through twentieth-century poets such as Charles Reznikoff, Karl Shapiro, Kenneth Koch, Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, and Gerald Stern, this book demonstrates that Whitman has been adopted by Jewish American poets as a liberal symbol against exclusionary and anti-Semitic elements in high modernist literary culture. The turn to Whitman serves as a mode of exploring Jewish and American identity. Author Biography Dara Barnat is senior faculty member and head of the Division of Languages at Tel Aviv University. She is author of The City I Run From: Poems of Tel Aviv. Barnat lives in Tel Aviv and New York. Review "The arrival of this virtuosic study is surely cause for celebration. Barnat brilliantly illuminates the rich tapestry of complex intersections between Americas Bard of Democracy and generations of significant Jewish American poets whom he inspired and provoked. Truly groundbreaking, it is an indispensable gift to scholars of Whitman and Jewish literature alike." - Ranen Omer-Sherman, author, Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film"In Barnats highly readable, well-researched account, the enduring affinity between Jewish poets and Whitman becomes a prism through which to understand the history of Jewish American poetry itself. A welcome and timely contribution to the ongoing conversation about the remaking of Jewish culture and identity in the United States." - Julian Levinson, author, Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture"From Emma Lazarus to Allen Ginsberg and beyond, Jewish American poets reactions to Whitman have been intense and nuanced, and formative of some of our countrys most impressive and influential literature. In this compact, long-overdue study, Barnat shows how these poets and others, have interpreted Whitman as implicitly Jewish and in doing so redefined Whitman, themselves, and the American poetic tradition." - Matt Miller, coeditor, Every Hour, Every Atom: A Collection of Walt Whitmans Early Notebooks and Fragments Review Quote "The arrival of this virtuosic study is surely cause for celebration. Barnat brilliantly illuminates the rich tapestry of complex intersections between Americas Bard of Democracy and generations of significant Jewish American poets whom he inspired and provoked. Truly groundbreaking, it is an indispensable gift to scholars of Whitman and Jewish literature alike."--Ranen Omer-Sherman, author, Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film Details ISBN1609389077 Author Dara Barnat Publisher University of Iowa Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1609389077 ISBN-13 9781609389079 Format Paperback Series Iowa Whitman Series Imprint University of Iowa Press Place of Publication Iowa Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-08-01 NZ Release Date 2023-08-01 UK Release Date 2023-08-01 DEWEY 811.3 Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 215 Publication Date 2023-08-31 US Release Date 2023-08-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:143044919;

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