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Educational Theory and Jewish Studies in Conversation: From
Volozhin to Buczacz, by Harvey Shapiro, PhD, brings together two
different fields of study-modern Jewish studies and contemporary
educational theory-to provide new theoretical frameworks for their
interaction. Although Jewish studies and education programs at
secular universities have joined denominational and
transdenominational institutions of higher learning in adopting a
dual or parallel course structure, there has been little scholarly
attention given to the basis for doing so. Shapiro provides
alternative theoretical frameworks for the relationship between
Jewish studies and educational theory and discusses different ways
of developing and articulating these relationships between
disciplines. Shapiro shows what is at stake when students and
faculty think and communicate together across discourses-in
particular, between the fields of education and Jewish studies.
Presenting an alternative to conventional notions of
interdisciplinarity, this book's import extends to virtually all
relationships between the humanities and professional education
when these different discourses illuminate and challenge one
another.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992) Winner of the
William Carlos Williams Award (1992) The Selected Poems James
Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British
publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost
Pilot which was a Yale Younger Poets selection in 1967, through his
1986 collection Reckoner. He is a most agile poet in a precarious
world. Life is alarming and absurd, but properly considered that
absurdity reveals, often with laughter, the something else by which
we live. The poems are about our world, our wrecked, vexed love for
it. Tate has been described as a surrealist. If that is what he is,
his surrealism issues in a vision of a world delivered back to
itself by his unillusioned subversion and candor.
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A Momentary Glory (Hardcover)
Harvey Shapiro; Edited by Norman Finkelstein
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The distinguished poet Harvey Shapiro passed away on January 7,
2013. The poems in this book, many of them previously unpublished
and discovered only after his death, are a great gift, and the
final confirmation of his extraordinary talent. Edited by Shapiro's
literary executor, the poet and critic Norman Finkelstein, these
last poems bear an unprecedented gravitas, and yet they are as
supple, jazzy, and edgy as Shapiro's earlier work. All the themes
for which he is known are beautifully represented here. There are
poems of his experiences in World War II, the erotic life, and of
daily moments in Brooklyn and Manhattan, all in search of a worldly
wisdom and grace that the poet calls "a momentary glory." As
Shapiro tells us, the poem "Is an Egyptian / ship of the dead, /
everything required / for life stored / in its hold." The book
includes an introduction by the editor. An online reader's
companion will be available.
Direct, informal, and richly evocative of his Jewish heritage and
New York City home, Harvey Shapiro's poetry has occupied a unique
place in American letters for over 50 years. This new collection
brings together his latest work and much of his 11 previous
collections, revealing the full arc of his carefully calibrated
poetics. Shapiro engages themes including the immigrant experience,
urban landmarks and lifestyles, family life, and war. The reader
will see the more formal British-tinged cadences of his earlier
work give way to the colloquial, personal nature of his later
poems, and how Shapiro's candor and simplicity mark his work
throughout the last five decades. Bringing the city and its balance
of despair and exuberance into stark relief, this poetry is
intimately attuned both to life's quiet disappointments and to its
unanticipated miracles.
Direct, informal, and richly evocative of his Jewish heritage and
New York City home, Harvey Shapiro's poetry has occupied a unique
place in American letters for over 50 years. This new collection
brings together his latest work and much of his 11 previous
collections, revealing the full arc of his carefully calibrated
poetics. Shapiro engages themes including the immigrant experience,
urban landmarks and lifestyles, family life, and war. The reader
will see the more formal British-tinged cadences of his earlier
work give way to the colloquial, personal nature of his later
poems, and how Shapiro's candor and simplicity mark his work
throughout the last five decades. Bringing the city and its balance
of despair and exuberance into stark relief, this poetry is
intimately attuned both to life's quiet disappointments and to its
unanticipated miracles.
This is the book of an urban mystic, someone who believes that the
streets he walks, the incidents he sees and in which he sometimes
plays a part have significance; he understands that the hidden
beauty and music of New York City. Madison Avenue, the Brooklyn
Bridge, Central Park appear and reappear as though they, the poet,
and the work were inseparable. The people he recalls - a bag lady,
E.E. Cummings - are as familiar to us as the city itself, but here
they are lyrical and light, these poems also hold love, loss,
melancholy, and tenderness -they reflect the incessant rhythms
between a man and his surroundings.
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