Holocaust Poetry

The only known collection of its kind currently in print, this important volume includes the work of 59 poets–among them Auden, Brecht, Celan, Jarrell, Levi, Milosz, Plath, Sexton, Spender, Wiesel, and Yevtushenko–writing on a range of subjects that are indelibly linked with the Holocaust. Collecting 119 poems in all, Holocaust Poetry commemorates the sanctity of those who died–both Jews and non-Jews–as a result of this unimaginably horrible crime.

Yet Schiff’s anthology is also a solemn affirmation of humanity’s survival, for it pays homage to the past while also attesting to the often brutal struggles that we as a species still face in this world, day in and day out. Also preserved here are poems written by those who themselves perished in the Shoah, the final testaments and eternal lessons of unknown soldiers, unheralded heroes, unsilenced voices.

Author: Hilda Schiff
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 02/15/1996
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780312143572
Language: English

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