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From where our new song rises: Jewish American poetry in the century past an introduction. (Editor's Introduction).
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September 22, 2002
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The essays in this special issue of Shofar, with one exception, focus on Jewish American poetry in the twentieth century, exploring its development and perhaps suggesting where it may go in the new century. The poems in a section entitled "A Scroll of Contemporary Poems" are the work of living poets. The work of two of them--Helen Degen Cohen and Michael Heller--is illuminated by essays in the journal, while another-Norman Finkelstein--has also contributed the concluding review-essay.
This issue offers just a taste of what has become one of the richest veins of American contemporary literature, a literature in which ethnic writers of many backgrounds continue to create ...
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