Schtick
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2013
200 pages
978-1-60846-288-9 (ISBN)
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Schtick is a tale of Jewish assimilation and its discontents: a sweeping exposition on Jewish American culture in all its bawdy, contradictory, inventive glory. Exploring-in his own family and in culture and politics at large-how Jews have shed their minority status in the United States, poet Kevin Coval shows us a people's transformation out of diaspora, landing on both sides of the color line.
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Kevin Coval is the author of ALA ¿Book of the Year" finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica, Everyday People, and most recently, L-vis Lives! Racemusic Poems. Founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, Coval is the artistic director of Young Chicago Authors. He is a regular contributor to WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and teaches creative-writing at schools across the city.
Content
1. gensis or(-igin) bars
translation
on disaporism
chosen
semite
kike
midrash of the body
mezuzah
two portraits of the wandering jew
ben
shtick: an arse poetica
dvarim
kol nidre
2. fam
on becoming a man
shtick at e's bar-mitzvah
the speech's at E's bar-mitzvah
Not Kane
midrash of my parents doomed marriage
at the passover seder
ode to gelfite fish
hamotzi
Rosh Hashanah in the suburbs
writing on Yom Kippur
my father is a tzaddik
midrash chicago fire
3. assimlation and its discontents
treif
no juden
the parables of jesus
explaining hanuka
why we may wish to be white
lost at the seder table
diaspora or ennui
Derrick
Game Over
allegory of the jewish
how jewish boys get irish names
4. shiksas
portnoy's complaint
shiksas
debbie does
assimilation nightmare 1
assimilation nightmare 2
diamonds
inheritance
5. an american parody in parts
undoing the pyramids
joyce nose job poem
punch line-mom nose job
remembering baby
Warhol nose america
boxer
no nose job
Babs
bird
ode to the schnozz
yacub's theory
6. shtick
al jolson
the cabal of x-ian names
monica lewinsky
allen ginsberg
nothing sacred- lenny bruce ode
Mean Woman Joan Rivers
thanking G-d later-Drake
sid ceaser
l'art of silence
Roseanne
wwLBd
the white dream of irving berlin
Don Rickels roasts Ronald Reagan
7. tuesdays with mel gibson
old testament one liner (a hai coup)
The Centurion Classic
nazi pope
henry ford wraps hitlers
assimilation nightmare #4
strange bedfellows:
quisling- joe liberman
hill billy bob's plan of action
passion of the kike
season's greetings
on the charge of deicide
deicide
8. blacks & jews
on how jews became white
matzah is a big ass cracker
The Break(oceanhill)
assimilation nightmare #3
easta time
matisyayu as the jazz singer
portrait of israel's favorite rapper
blonde ambition
unlearning the hard way
jesse jackson/ tailsman
public enemy #1
Louis Farrakhan
the serect relationshop between Blacks and jews
the conversion of Sammy
Don Rickels roasts Sammy Davis
jewtown
48 hours ars poetica
the holocaust calls for its orthonym
Avraham, The Parriarch was Black
9. palestine
self-hating jew
what it's like to be the grandson of ziontist
why i stopped going to shul
explaining myself
assimilation nightmare #5
birthright
burning books
the wall
sharks/pirates
israel as golem
vetting the mayor
portrait of a slumlord
portrait of ariel sharon
Nows the Time to be fresh- SJP ode
shiksa angel ode to rachel corrie
occupation
david v. goliath
all the pharaohs
what will i tell my jewish kids
translation
on disaporism
chosen
semite
kike
midrash of the body
mezuzah
two portraits of the wandering jew
ben
shtick: an arse poetica
dvarim
kol nidre
2. fam
on becoming a man
shtick at e's bar-mitzvah
the speech's at E's bar-mitzvah
Not Kane
midrash of my parents doomed marriage
at the passover seder
ode to gelfite fish
hamotzi
Rosh Hashanah in the suburbs
writing on Yom Kippur
my father is a tzaddik
midrash chicago fire
3. assimlation and its discontents
treif
no juden
the parables of jesus
explaining hanuka
why we may wish to be white
lost at the seder table
diaspora or ennui
Derrick
Game Over
allegory of the jewish
how jewish boys get irish names
4. shiksas
portnoy's complaint
shiksas
debbie does
assimilation nightmare 1
assimilation nightmare 2
diamonds
inheritance
5. an american parody in parts
undoing the pyramids
joyce nose job poem
punch line-mom nose job
remembering baby
Warhol nose america
boxer
no nose job
Babs
bird
ode to the schnozz
yacub's theory
6. shtick
al jolson
the cabal of x-ian names
monica lewinsky
allen ginsberg
nothing sacred- lenny bruce ode
Mean Woman Joan Rivers
thanking G-d later-Drake
sid ceaser
l'art of silence
Roseanne
wwLBd
the white dream of irving berlin
Don Rickels roasts Ronald Reagan
7. tuesdays with mel gibson
old testament one liner (a hai coup)
The Centurion Classic
nazi pope
henry ford wraps hitlers
assimilation nightmare #4
strange bedfellows:
quisling- joe liberman
hill billy bob's plan of action
passion of the kike
season's greetings
on the charge of deicide
deicide
8. blacks & jews
on how jews became white
matzah is a big ass cracker
The Break(oceanhill)
assimilation nightmare #3
easta time
matisyayu as the jazz singer
portrait of israel's favorite rapper
blonde ambition
unlearning the hard way
jesse jackson/ tailsman
public enemy #1
Louis Farrakhan
the serect relationshop between Blacks and jews
the conversion of Sammy
Don Rickels roasts Sammy Davis
jewtown
48 hours ars poetica
the holocaust calls for its orthonym
Avraham, The Parriarch was Black
9. palestine
self-hating jew
what it's like to be the grandson of ziontist
why i stopped going to shul
explaining myself
assimilation nightmare #5
birthright
burning books
the wall
sharks/pirates
israel as golem
vetting the mayor
portrait of a slumlord
portrait of ariel sharon
Nows the Time to be fresh- SJP ode
shiksa angel ode to rachel corrie
occupation
david v. goliath
all the pharaohs
what will i tell my jewish kids
