Believing in Ourselves by Nancy Carson

Believing in Ourselves by Nancy Carson

Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or sweat-shop poets, sympathizing with Socialist Anarchists, who were highly popular with Yiddish audiences at the end of the nineteenth century; the lyrical moods and ironies of the Young Generation at the beginning of the twentieth century; the sophisticated poetry of the modern world seen through the individualistic prism of the Introspectivists after World War I; samples of epic poetry; and, finally, the poetry of the Holocaust and the decline of the Yiddish language. This anthology reveals both an amazing achievement of Jewish creative work and an important body of American poetry, written in a minority language, practically unknown to most readers. The travails, joys, and intimate experiences of the individual in the big metropolis are intertwined with representations of American realities: architecture and alienation in the big city, the migration of the blacks, trade unions and underworld, the immigrant experience in this immense and strange land, and the destinies of Jewish history.

Nancy Carson lives in Staffordshire and is a keen student of local history. All her novels are based around real events, and focus on the lives and loves of the people of the Black Country.

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ISBN 13	9780740722202
ISBN 10	0740722204
Title	Believing in Ourselves
Author	Nancy Carson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Year published	2002-03-07
Number of pages	143
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