Borderlines: Russian and East European Jewish studies
Includes bibliographical references (p. 432-[451]) and indexes
Introduction: poet-interpreter/translator-scribe -- Mythology/life, hermeneutics, translation -- The coordinates: origin-return-seclusion -- Pt. 1. Historiography -- The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars" -- The poet-historian: transplantation added -- A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53 -- Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse -- The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics -- Pt. 2. Polemics -- Writing the Jew: the poet’s genealogies -- On account of the elegy: within cemetery walls -- Conversing about god: between the old and the new -- Pt. 3. Intertexts -- Among the objectivists: Charles Reznikoff -- Blindness and no insight: David Samoilov -- "leader of leaders and mentor of mentors": Il’ia Sel’vinskii -- "Weighty proofs of the unprovable": Ian Satunovskii -- the final myth: Pushkin -- conclusion: the reader in perpetuity.
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