Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Traces
6. From Ghetto to Diaspora: A.M. Klein in Our Time 19
7. On Being Published in Heaven: The Case of Klein and Kerouac 33
8. “Myself in Time ... and Space”: The Letters of A.M. Klein 52
9. A Writer for our Age: Notes on Voice in A.M. Klein’s Poetry and Prose 69
10. A Targum Leben: The Translator
11. Ken men tantsn af tsvey khasenes? A.M. Klein and Yiddish 79
12. Some Hebrew and Yiddish Vorlage in the Poetry of A.M. Klein 98
13. Wolofsky ibergesetst, or How Does A.M. Klein Translate? 106
14. Montreal and Beyond
15. Reading A.M. Klein’s “The Mountain” Alongside the Montreal Poems of J.I. Segal 129
16. Montreal, Dublin, Prague, Jerusalem, and the Others: A.M. Klein’s Cities 142
17. Looking for A.M. Klein in Winnipeg’s Anglo-Jewish Press 155
18. The Literary Offspring: Richler, Cohen, and Michaels
19. Richler, Son of Klein 169
20. Uncle Melech and Cousin Joey: The Search for the Absent Hero in A.M. Klein’s The Second Scroll and Mordecai Richler’s St. Urbain’s Horseman 179
21. A.M. Klein: Mordecai Richler’s Versions 191
22. Converting Failure in Klein, Cohen, and Michaels 203
23. Notes 221
24. Bibliography 245
25. Contributors 261
26. Index 265