Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: “Memory knows no walls”: Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time 1
5. 1. Hyam Plutzik’s War 15
6. 2. The Universe Is No Consolation: Hyam Plutzik, Jewish History, and the Nature of Post-Holocaust Poetics 34
7. 3. Hyam Plutzik and Gabriel Preil: Trajectories of Jewish American Poetry 71
8. 4. “So!” Reading “The Importance of Poetry, or, The Coming Forth from Eternity into Time” 89
9. 5. Hyam Plutzik’s Horatio as Cautionary Epic: Writing the Cold War Everyman 117
10. 6. Elegy for a Mythic Warland: Hyam Plutzik’s Wartime Poems and Letters from England 140
11. 7. When We Begin with Loss: Revisiting the Early Poems of Hyam Plutzik 155
12. 8. Judaic Time and Eternity in Hyam Plutzik’s Poetry 168
13. 9. “The Great Betrayals are Impersonal”: The Abstract Demons of Hyam Plutzik’s Apples from Shinar 192
14. 10. Hyam Plutzik and the Lowercase Jew 208
15. 11. Hyam Plutzik: “Value the Intermediate Splendor” 215
16. 12. “Scorn Will Not Save”: Plutzik’s Negative Capability 222
17. 13. “But something can be said”: Ethics, Memory, and Midrash in the Work of Hyam Plutzik 235
18. 14. The Saturated Forgetfulness of Liturgical Memory 252
19. 15. Hyam Plutzik’s Rod and Creel: Fishing, Jewish Identity, and the Legacy of American Antisemitism 279
20. 16. The Outcasts of Rochester, or, The Fantastic Poetics of Hyam Plutzik 312
21. 17. This Is My Letter to the World: On Hyam Plutzik’s Big Epistle 325
22. Selected Poems 337
23. Contributors 437
24. Index 443
25. Editors 462