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  title info:
    title: Reading Charles Reznikoff
    sub title: the plain sunlight of his verse
  name:
    name part: Kalck, Xavier
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: McMahon, Fiona
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Toth, Naomi
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: scu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: v, 338 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "This collection of essays explores Reznikoff's verse and its contemporary poetic and critical legacy in five movements. The first looks at how history and politics are woven into Reznikoff's work, namely Reznikoff's complex relationship with Jewish American identity in the 20th century. The second section turns to documentary poetics and to Reznikoff's practice of composing from historical and well as legal documents, in the context of modernist concerns over realism as well as contemporary ones over memory and appropriation. The third section delves into the concept of verse-Reznikoff's word for the lyric-showing how Reznikoff's rhythms compose an abstract yet accurate vernacular portrait of America. It places Reznikoff among his fellow poets, known as the Objectivists, and in relation to larger issues pertaining to the rhythmic fabric of free verse and the aesthetic vocabularies of the spare and the ordinary. The fourth opens onto issues of translation, and Reznikoff's work's journey through Mexican, Polish and French contexts, illustrating Reznikoff's ongoing transnational relevance. The volume concludes with a foray into some of Reznikoff's afterlives, in the work Paul Auster- an early champion of Reznikoff's method-and through the history of Reznikoff's complex engagement with the African American experience, the representation of injustice and testimony as a dialogical means of witnessing intended to foster a sense of community"--
  table of contents: Introduction / Xavier Kalck, Fiona McMahon, Naomi Toth -- I. History/politics. The method of irreducible detail : Charles Reznikoff the historian / Stephen Fredman -- Reznikoff and the rabbis / Norman Finkelstein -- "There's so much trouble -- and he sings" : Reznikoff's lyrical diaporism / Ranen Omer-Sherman -- Charles Reznikoff's poetic cross-nationalism / Shira Wolosky -- II. Documentary poetics. Subjectivities of the law / Jena Osman -- "That it might be put down in capitals" : the objective correlative in Charles Reznikoff's Testimony (1934) / Natina Gilbert -- Engraving destruction and disappearance : law, historiography, and poetry in Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust / Valentine Auvinet -- III. Lyric. Reznikoff among the Objectivists / Mark Scroggins -- "Like a rest in music or a turn in the dance" : rhythm, feeling, and the significance of vernacular language in Charles Reznikoff's Testimony (1965) / Miriam Ould Aroussi -- Reznikoff : "a girder still itself" / Michael Heller -- IV. Translations. Translating Charles Reznikoff's Testimony into Spanish / Sarug Sarano -- Post-socialist Objectivism? : Charles Reznikoff's Going to and fro and Walking up and down in the former socialist countries (with particular reference to Poland) / Joanna Orska -- A test of poetry and "Never again" : Charles Reznikoff's French reception / Abigail Lang -- V. Afterlives. Paul Auster's Reznikoffs / Francois Hugonnier -- African American experiences and Charles Reznikoff's poetics in the Black Lives Matter Era / Almas Khan.
  note: edited by Xavier Kalck, Fiona McMahon, and Naomi Toth.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Reznikoff, Charles
      name part: 1894-1976
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Poésie américaine
    temporal: 20e siècle
    topic: Histoire et critique
  classification: PS3535.E98 Z85 2025
  classification: 811/.52
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    origin info:
      publisher: Clemson, SC : Clemson University Press, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2025040203
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  identifier: 9781638041917
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  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 250911
    record change date: 20260206083817.8
    record identifier: in00005692369
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng