Walt Whitman And The Making Of Jewish American Poetry

Author : Dara Barnat
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609389086

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Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry by Dara Barnat Pdf

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 : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781931082327

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Walt Whitman: Selected Poems by Walt Whitman Pdf

American literature and culture are inconceivable without the towering presence of Walt Whitman. Expansive, ecstatic, original in ways that continue to startle and to elicit new discoveries, Whitman’s poetry is a testament to the surging energies of 19th-century America and a monument to the transforming power of literary genius. His incantatory rhythms, revolutionary sense of Eros, and generous, all-embracing vision invite renewed wonder at each reading. Although he has been a defining influence for many poets—Garcia Lorca, Fernando Pessoa, Robinson Jeffers, and Allen Ginsberg—his style is ultimately inimitable, and his achievement unsurpassed in American poetry. “One always wants to start out fresh with Whitman,” writes Harold Bloom in his introduction, “and read him as though he never has been read before.” In a selection that ranges from early notebook fragments and the complete “Song of Myself” to the valedictory “Good-bye My Fancy!,” Bloom has chosen 47 works to represent “the principal writer that America—North, Central, or South—has brought to us.” About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

Author : Paul Zweig
Publisher : New York : Basic Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : UCAL:B4311051

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Walt Whitman by Paul Zweig Pdf

Traces the life and career of Walt Whitman through a period of transition.

Author : Matt Miller
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803234420

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Collage of Myself by Matt Miller Pdf

Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America's most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book length study of Walt Whitman's journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman---who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play---was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all. Collage of Myself details Whitman's discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as "Song of Myself" and "The Sleepers." Whitman embraced an art of fragments that encouraged him to "cut and paste" his lines into ever evolving forms based on what he called "spinal ideas." This approach to language, Miller argues, represents the first major use in the Western arts of the technique later know as collage, an observation with significant ramifications for our reception of subsequent artists and writers. Long before the modernists, Whitman integrated found text and ready made language into a revolutionary formulation of artistic production that anticipates much of what is exciting about modern and postmodern art. Using the Walt Whitman Archive's collection of digital images to study what were previously scattered and inaccessible manuscript pages, Miller provides a breakthrough in our understanding of the great American literary icon.

Author : Jim Perlman,Ed Folsom,Dan Campion
Publisher : Holy Cow! Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780985981860

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Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song by Jim Perlman,Ed Folsom,Dan Campion Pdf

First published to wide critical acclaim in 1981, this revised and expanded monumental anthology charts the ongoing American and international response to the legacy of the seminal poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1855 letter ("I greet you at the beginning of a great career..."), this new edition contains responses from Thoreau, Pound, Lawrence, Neruda, Borges, Ginsberg, Jordan, Duncan, Le Sueur, Rich, Snyder and Alexie, among many others. "I know of no more convincing proof of Walt Whitman's impact upon the poetic mind (both at home and abroad) than this collection of tributes by poets -- in prose and verse" -- Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary Singer. Includes 17 black & white photos.

Author : Robert Rehder,Patrick Vincent
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 3823362712

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American Poetry by Robert Rehder,Patrick Vincent Pdf

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466854000

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Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

A fully unexpurgated collection that restores the sexual vitality and subversive flair suppressed by Whitman himself in later editions of Leaves of Grass. A century after his death, Whitman is still celebrated as America's greatest poet. In this startling new edition of his work, Whitman biographer Gary Schmidgall presents over 200 poems in their original pristine form, in the chronological order in which they were written, with Whitman's original punctuation. Included in this volume are facsimiles of Whitman's original manuscripts, contemporary - and generally blistering - reviews of Whitman's poetry (not surprisingly Henry James hated it), and early pre-Leaves of Grass poems that return us to the physical Whitman, rejoicing - sometimes graphically - in homoerotic love. Unlike the many other available editions, all drawn from the final authorized or "deathbed" Leaves of Grass, this collection focuses on the exuberant poems Whitman wrote during the creative and sexual prime of his life, roughly between l853 and l860. These poems are faithfully presented as Whitman first gave them to the world - fearless, explicit and uncompromised - before he transformed himself into America's respectable, mainstream Good Gray Poet through 30 years of revision, self-censorship and suppression. Whitman admitted that his later poetry lacked the "ecstasy of statement" of his early verse. Revealing that ecstasy for the first time, this edition makes possible a major reappraisal of our nation first great poet.

Author : Jonathan N. Barron,Eric Murphy Selinger
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1584650427

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Jewish American Poetry by Jonathan N. Barron,Eric Murphy Selinger Pdf

Offers poems by twenty-six poets, along with the poets' commentary discussing various aspects of the poetry and addressing the question of what makes a poet's work particularly Jewish..

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732655120

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Poems by Walt Whitman Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Poems by Walt Whitman

Author : Gay Wilson Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030000350027

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Walt Whitman as Man, Poet, and Legend by Gay Wilson Allen Pdf

Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : NYPL:33433082217567

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Walt Whitman, a Study by John Addington Symonds Pdf

Author : Gay Wilson Allen,Ed Folsom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038423326

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Walt Whitman & the World by Gay Wilson Allen,Ed Folsom Pdf

Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American literature, Walt Whitman and the World demonstrates how various cultures have appropriated an American writer who ceases to sound quite so narrowly American when he is read into another culture's traditions.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781473362222

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Poems by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the masters of American poetry. Here are collected his finest poems, a perfect companion for any fan of Whitman's work.

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619322059

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Father's Day by Matthew Zapruder Pdf

"As seen in the The New York Times Book Review ""In characteristically short lines and pithy, slippery language like predictive text from a lucid dream, Zapruder’s fifth collection grapples with fatherhood as well as larger questions of influence and inheritance and obligation."" —The New York Times “[Zapruder] presents powerfully nuanced and vivid verse about the limitations of poetry to enact meaningful change in a world spiraling into callousness; yet despite poetry’s supposed constraints, Zapruder’s verse offers solace and an invaluable blueprint for empathy.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review “Zapruder’s new book, Father’s Day, is firmly situated in its (and our) political moment, and is anchored by a compelling gravity and urgency.” ―The Washington Post The poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask, how can one be a good father, partner, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court, watching a child grow off into a distance, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward. "

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1788289889

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The Poetry of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

"Revered as one of the most influential American poets of all time, Walt Whitman used his own money to publish his first collection of poetry in a slim volume called Leaves of Grass. Over the following years, it became his life's work as he continuously revised and expanded it. Freed from the restraints of tradition, Whitman's exuberance shines through every poem. His uplifting verses and powerful language provide a stunning experience unmatched by his contemporaries, and exercised an incredible influence on his fellow countrymen. The poems selected here take you on a whirlwind tour of emotions as he whisks you from celebrations of sexuality to his inspirational accounts of soceity." --P. [4] of cover.