"The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises evokes and investigates -- from a Jewish-American perspective and in the forms of poetry, essays, and interviews -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, America's involvement as both perpetrator and victim of events in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and the multiple ways that poetics can respond to political imperatives. In these creative, analytical, and conversational moments, Leonard Schwartz rethinks the battle lines of the contemporary Middle East and calls on the ...
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"The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises evokes and investigates -- from a Jewish-American perspective and in the forms of poetry, essays, and interviews -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, America's involvement as both perpetrator and victim of events in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and the multiple ways that poetics can respond to political imperatives. In these creative, analytical, and conversational moments, Leonard Schwartz rethinks the battle lines of the contemporary Middle East and calls on the power of language, endlessly fluid, but also the source of confusion. The New Babel attempts both to embrace and to counter this confusion"--Page 2 cover.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Fayetteville. 2016. August 2016. University of Arkansas Press. Uncorrected Galley. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781682260036. 6 × 9. 190 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetics Middle east. FROM THE PUBLISHER-‘A highly original voice engaged in a creatively subversive way with the issues of our day. '-Mohja Kahf, author of The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf. ‘An exemplary inquiry into the relationship between the power of words and worldly power. '-Edwin Frank, editor, New York Review Books. The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crises evokes and investigates-from a Jewish American perspective and in the forms of poetry, essays, and interviews-the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, America's involvement as both perpetrator and victim of events in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and the multiple ways that poetics can respond to political imperatives. The poems range from the immediately lyrical to the experimental forms of the ‘Apple Anyone Sonnets' series, which relies heavily on the Arabic but has Shakespeare as its scaffolding. In the essays, Schwartz calls on the power of poetry-and of some of the great poets in the Arabic, Jewish, and American traditions-to help rethink the battle lines of the contemporary Mid-East, with the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber looming large. The interviews provide Schwartz's discussions with Israeli poet and activist Aharon Shabtai, political philosopher Michael Hardt, and the late, great American poet Amiri Baraka. In these creative, analytical, and conversational moments, Leonard Schwartz rethinks the battle lines of the contemporary Middle East and calls on the power of language as the essence of our humanity, endlessly fluid, but also the source of an intentional confusion there is a necessity to counter. inventory #42803.
