Rodger Kamenetz — Reading 2 comments

The poems of Rodger Kamenetz are full of jazz rhythm, ancient tragedy, and dark wit. They draw on Jewish song and prayer in a voice that is thoroughly modern—with an equanimity and a quiet humor that may come from his Buddhism and may come just from himself.

Rodger Kamenetz—poet, essayist, and religious thinker—has inspired a profound reevaluation of Jewish thinking in the light of the dialogue with Buddhism. He has been called "one of the most formidable of the Jewish-American poets." His poems are widely anthologized and he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in literature. His articles and essays on religion have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Moment, and Reform Judaism. Kamenetz is a professor of English and of religious studies at Louisiana State University, where he teaches in the graduate creative writing program and directs the Jewish Studies minor. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and two daughters.

These poems were recorded at the 2007 Glen Workshop.

Bibliography

• The Missing Jew (Dryad Press/Tropos Press, 1979) poetry.
• Nympholepsy (Dryad Press, 1985) poetry.
• Terra Infirma (U. of Arkansas Press, 1985) non-fiction.
• The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems (Time Being Books, 1991) poetry.
• The Jew in the Lotus (Harper San Francisco, 1994) non-fiction.
• Stuck: Poems Midlife (Time Being Books, 1997) poetry
• Stalking Elijah (Harper San Francisco, 1997) non-fiction.
• Terra Infirma: a memoir of my mother's life in mine (Shocken, 1999) non-fiction, reprint.
• The Lowercase Jew (Northwestern, 2003) poetry.
• The Jew in the Lotus (PLUS) with an afterword by the author. (HarperOne, 2007) non-fiction.
• The History of Last Night's Dream (HarperOne, 2007) non-fiction.