Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Shofar; an Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,1 (2002) 63-73
Keywords:
Zukofsky, Louis,
;
Pound, Ezra,
Abstract:
Discusses very rare but significant reflections of Jewish identity in the postwar poetry of the American Jewish poet Zukofsky (1904-1978), who had been alienated from his Orthodox Jewish background to the point of himself expressing antisemitic attitudes and having a close and lasting friendship with his antisemitic mentor Ezra Pound. A poem about his father's death contains echoes of American antisemitism. In "A, " the poet associates the death of his father with the demise of European Judaism. Finally, examines "Nor Did the Prophet, " with its detailed biblical and contemporary allusions, to illuminate Zukofsky's complex relationship with Pound and his antisemitism.
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