Rodger Kamenetz
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Rodger Kamenetz is a poet and author. He was born in Baltimore in 1950, educated at Yale, Stanford and Johns Hopkins University. He currently lives in New Orleans and teaches in the English department at LSU. He is best known as the author of The Jew in the Lotus(Harper San Francisco, 1994) which is the authoritative account of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama. It is an international best seller. He is also the author of Stalking Elijah (Harper, 1997) which received the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought in 1997.
Kamenetz is a regular columnist for Beliefnet where he writes about Judaism and Buddhism.
His books of poetry include The Lowercase Jew (Northwestern, 2003) and The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems (Time Being, 1991).
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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 History of Last Night's Dream (Harper San Francisco, 2007) non-fiction. In press.
