Rachel Kaufman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6625640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Kaufman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaufman |
| SIGNATURE | KAUFMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9977-780X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poetics as historical methodology
How can the tools of the poet enrich the writing of history? Some of history refuses translation. The past leaves gaping gestures in its records, for the historian to evade, or gloss over, or critically fabulate, as it leaves sediments of fractured story, layered through the processes of historical production. How can the historian attune to, and then amend, these formal contours of the archive? I argue that poetics can place the possibility and …
Dara Barnat. Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry
In the concluding pages of her book, Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry, poet and literary scholar Dara Barnat cites Jerome Rothenberg on influence: “Everything & everyone around here are welcome to come into the poem—in particular what has been hidden for so long that the poem has almost to create it (or to seem to do so) to make it visible again” (141). A reference to his own work and to the poetry world post-Whitman, Rothenb…
A mosaic of exchange
Translating History
How can the poetic line translate history? In this article, I trace the methods of translation and transmission that accompanied my writing of an archival poetry collection. Immersed in Mexican Inquisition documents and crypto-Jewish oral histories of the Southwest, the collection interrogates questions of genre, form, empathy, and memory. I argue that historical poetry can foreground the materiality of history, embrace the sensual and strange, a…
Water Crisis in the West
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Water Crisis in the West
Translating History
How can the poetic line translate history? In this article, I trace the methods of translation and transmission that accompanied my writing of an archival poetry collection. Immersed in Mexican Inquisition documents and crypto-Jewish oral histories of the Southwest, the collection interrogates questions of genre, form, empathy, and memory. I argue that historical poetry can foreground the materiality of history, embrace the sensual and strange, a…
A mosaic of exchange
Poetics as historical methodology
How can the tools of the poet enrich the writing of history? Some of history refuses translation. The past leaves gaping gestures in its records, for the historian to evade, or gloss over, or critically fabulate, as it leaves sediments of fractured story, layered through the processes of historical production. How can the historian attune to, and then amend, these formal contours of the archive? I argue that poetics can place the possibility and …
Dara Barnat. Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry
In the concluding pages of her book, Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry, poet and literary scholar Dara Barnat cites Jerome Rothenberg on influence: “Everything & everyone around here are welcome to come into the poem—in particular what has been hidden for so long that the poem has almost to create it (or to seem to do so) to make it visible again” (141). A reference to his own work and to the poetry world post-Whitman, Rothenb…
History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African american (1 work) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (1 work) · American poetry (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)