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"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"--
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.
edited by Xavier Kalck, Fiona McMahon, and Naomi Toth.
Clemson, SC : Clemson University Press, 2025