Kevin Coval 
Schtick 

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.

Innehållsförteckning

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

ww LBd

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

Om författaren

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.