The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975David R. Godine Publisher, 2005 - 445 sidor Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976), the son of Russian garment workers, was an American original: a blood-and-bone New Yorker, a collector of images and stories who walked the city from the Bronx to the Battery and breathed the soul of the Jewish immigrant experience into a lifetime of poetry. He wrote narrative poems based on Old Testament sources. Above all, he wrote spare, intensely visual, epigrammatic poems, a kind of urban haiku. The language of these short poems is as plain as bread and salt, their imagery as crisp and unambiguous as a Charles Sheeler photograph. But their meaning is only hinted at: it is there in the selection of details, and in the music of the verse. Reznikoff was sincere and objective, a poet of great feeling who strove to honor the world by describing it precisely. He also strove to keep his feelings out of his poetry. He did not confess, he did not pose, he did not cultivate a myth of himself. Instead he created art-an unadorned art in praise of the world that God and men have made-and invited readers to bring their own feelings to it. In an age of ephemera, of first drafts rushed into print and soon forgotten, Reznikoff's poetry is a sturdy, well-wrought thing-"a girder, still itself / among the rubble." A timeless testament-impersonal, incorruptible, undeniably American-it will survive every change in literary fashion. Book jacket. |
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Poems 1920 | 19 |
A Fourth Group of Verse 1921 | 29 |
A Fifth Group of Verse 1927 | 53 |
Israel 1929 | 63 |
King David 1929 | 77 |
Jerusalem the Golden 1934 | 93 |
1933 1934 | 119 |
Separate Way 1936 | 153 |
19441956 1959 | 217 |
By the Well of Living and Seeing 1969 | 249 |
The Fifth Book of the Maccabees 1969 | 339 |
Jews in Babylonia 1969 | 349 |
Last Poems 1977 | 359 |
Obiter Dicta | 371 |
Chronology | 381 |
Notes | 393 |
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