Reviews for Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

The average rating for Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-09-09 00:00:00 Fred Grieger A fascinating book on an intricate and various identity. Modern and post-modern thought's so entwined with Jewish experience and history that many of the themes touched on here apply equally well to major strains in secular non-Jewish culture, but the sensitive efforts to locate poets from Antin to Zukofsky within a history that lengthens from Mt. Moriah through Paul to the Shoah (and before and beyond) make a persuasive, doggedly non-essentialist case for the shaggy cohesiveness of something like a secular Jewish tradition of writing. Benjamin Friedlander's essay/experiment on Paul, Marjorie Perloff's on Celan, and Maria Damon's on Adeena Karasick via Phil Spector were three favorites in a chorus of thoughtful, often feelingful, voices. In the teeth of rising fundamentalisms of all stripes, these essays and poems are a welcome assertion of how complex and stretchy cultural and religious subjectivities can (and should) be.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-11-11 00:00:00 Marc Belanger This is a fascinating read of T.S. Eliot's poetry by an Eliot scholar. I highly recommend it.