Norman Finkelstein (poet)
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Norman Finkelstein is a poet and literary critic. He has written extensively about modern and postmodern poetry and about Jewish American literature. According to Tablet Magazine, Finkelstein's poetry "is simultaneously secular and religious, stately and conversational, prophetic, and circumspect."[1]
Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1954. He earned his B.A. from Binghamton University and his Ph.D. from Emory University. He is a Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has taught since 1980.
Books of Poetry
- Restless Messengers (Georgia, 1992).
- Track: three volumes. Track (Spuyten Duyvil, 1999), Columns (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002), and Powers (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005).
- Passing Over (Marsh Hawk, 2007).
- Scribe (Dos Madres, 2009).
Books of literary criticism
- The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Literature (Bucknell, 1988, 1993)
- The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature (SUNY, 1992)
- Not One of Them In Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity (SUNY, 2002)
- Lyrical Interference: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil, 2004)
- On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred In Contemporary American Poetry (Iowa, 2010)
Audio links
Discussions of Finkelstein's Poetry
Eric Murphy Selinger, "Azoy Toot a Yid: Secular Poetics and 'The Jewish Way,'" in Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture, ed. Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris (Alabama, 2010), 354-377.
References
- ^ Scribes and Scribblers: Poetry inspired by architecture, prophecy, and the immigration experience, David Kaufman, Tablet Magazine, Dec. 2, 2009. [1]
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- American poets
- American literary critics
- Binghamton University alumni
- Emory University alumni
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