Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Radical Jewish culture/secular Jewish practice / Charles Bernstein
  • Who or what is a Jewish American poet, with specific reference to David Antin, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, and Jerome Rothenberg / Hank Lazer
  • The house of Jews: experimental modernism and traditional Jewish practice / Jerome Rothenberg
  • Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a body of work / Bob Perelman
  • Addendum: on "the Jewish question": three perspectives / Bob Perelman
  • Light(silence)word / Norman Fischer
  • On Yiddish poetry and translation of Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein
  • An "exotic" on East Broadway: Mikhl Likht and the paradoxes of Yiddish modernist poetry / Merle Bachman
  • Revisiting Charles Reznikoff's urban poetics of diaspora and contingency / Ranen Omer-Sherman
  • Looking at Louis Zukofsky's poetics through Spinozist glasses / Joshua Schuster
  • "Can a Jew be wild": the radical Jewish grammar of Gertrude Stein's voices poems / Amy Feinstein
  • Remains of the diaspora: a personal meditation / Michael Heller
  • Secular and sacred: returning (to) the repressed / Alicia Ostriker
  • Midrashic sensibilities: secular Judaism and radical poetics (a personal essay in several chapters) / Rachel Blau DuPlessis
  • Secular Jewish culture and its radical poetic discontents / Norman Finkelstein
  • Radical relation: Jewish identity and the power of contradictions in the poetics of Muriel Rukeyser and George Oppen / Meg Schoerke
  • "Yes and no, not either/or": aesthetics, identity, and Marjorie Perloff's Vienna paradox / Daniel Morris
  • "Sound scraps, vision scraps": Paul Celan's poetic practice / Marjorie Perloff
  • Language in the dark: the legacy of Walter Benjamin in the opera Shadowtime / Charlie Bertsch
  • Danger, skepticism, and democratic longing: five contemporary secular Jewish American poets / Thomas Fink
  • Relentlessly going on and on: how Jews remade modern poetry without even trying / Stephen Paul Miller
  • Azoy toot a Yid: secular poetics and "the Jewish way" / Eric Murphy Selinger
  • A Jew in New York / Bob Holman
  • Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's wall of sound / Maria Damon
  • In the shadow of desire: Charles Bernstein's Shadowtime and its kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick
  • Hijacking language: kabbalistic trajectories / Adeena Karasick
  • Letter to the Romans / Benjamin Friedlander
  • White / Paul Auster.