{"product_id":"radical-poetics-and-secular-jewish-culture-modern-contemporary-poetics-9780817355630","title":"Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition - specifically secular Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized religion, yet forever shaped by those traditions. This title addresses this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Some of the key issues for Jewish writers in the 20th century are those of identity and self-representation. Editors Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Miller asked their contributors to address what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined as ‘secular,’ and whether or not there is a Jewish component or dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general. While there is no easy answer for these writers about what it means to be a Jew, in their responses there is a rich sense of how being Jewish reflects on their aesthetics and practices as poets, and how the tradition of the avant-garde informs their identities as Jews. Fragmented identities, irony, skepticism, a sense of self as ‘other’ or ‘outsider,’ distrust of the literal, and belief in a tradition that questions rather than answers are some of the qualities these poets see as common to themselves, the poetry they make, and the tradition they work within.”--\u003cem\u003eShofar\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038578344279,"sku":"9780817355630","price":30.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817355630.jpg?v=1750940749","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/radical-poetics-and-secular-jewish-culture-modern-contemporary-poetics-9780817355630","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}