Edited by Victoria Aarons, Hyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time: Essays and Selected Poems is an original collection of essays by scholars and poets exploring the life and work of three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historical rupture of the Holocaust and World War II. Each chapter examines in depth the influence of modernist poetics and American Jewish identity on his richly figured work. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the third great wave of Jewish immigration, Plutzik’s poetic milieu is inflected with the linguistic mosaic of his cultural inheritance. With close focus on his most significant poetry, individual chapters bring to light complicated issues of Jewish American ethnicity and identity in 20th-century American cultural studies. This collection speaks to the legacy of a poet whose work continues to have relevance for Jewish literary studies and poetics. With author-panelists Rodger Kamenetz and Maxim D. Shrayer; moderated by Rebecca Friedman, founder and director of the public humanities program at Florida International University.
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