Holocaust Poetry - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 095362806X ISBN 13: 9780953628063

Publisher: Quill Press, 2002

Synopsis

Holocaust Poetry is a lasting and solemn tribute to the memory of the past and to the hope of the future.

Behold, God of Abraham, God of mercy,
Open your eyes as you have opened mine,
Open your eyes and see what I have seen... --Elie Wiesel

She felt a kind of envy for
Those who stood naked in their truth:
Where to be one of her people was
To be one of those millions killed. --Stephen Spender

And death looks on with a casual eye
and picks at the dirt under his fingernail. --Anne Sexton

Consider whether this is a man.
Who labors in the mud
Who knows no peace
Who fights for a crust of bread
Who dies at a yes or a no. --Primo Levi

The volume includes 119 poems and the voices of 59 poets.

About this title

About the Author:

Hilda Schiff, a prominent critic, poet, and professor, lives in London.

Review:

First They Came For The Jews by Dannie Abse
Almost A Love Poem by Yehuda Amichai
Death Fugue by Paul Antschel
The Jugs by Paul Antschel
Psalm by Paul Antschel
Zurich, The Stork Inn by Paul Antschel
Refugee Blues by Wystan Hugh Auden
If by Edward Bond
Farewell To Maria by Tadeusz Boroski
Night Over Birkenau by Tadeusz Boroski
The Sun Of Auschwitz by Tadeusz Boroski
1940 by Bertolt Brecht
I, The Survivor by Bertolt Brecht
War Has Been Given A Bad Name by Bertolt Brecht
I Keep Forgetting by Lily Brett
La Pathetique by Lily Brett
Leaving You by Lily Brett
My Mother's Friend by Lily Brett
Remembering Dresden by Van K. Brock
Portrait Of A House Detective by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Archive Film Material by Ruth Fainlight
Annus Mirabilis 1989 by Elaine Feinstein
A German Requiem by James Fenton
The Assumption Of Miriam by Jerzy Ficowski
Both Your Mothers by Jerzy Ficowski
The Execution Of Memory by Jerzy Ficowski
A Girl Of Six From The Ghetto Begging In Smolna Street In 1942 by Jerzy Ficowski
I Did Not Manage To Save by Jerzy Ficowski
In Memory Of Janusz Korczak by Jerzy Ficowski
Shipment To Maidanek by Ephim Fogel
The Butterfly by Pavel Friedmann
Experiments With God by Karen Gershon
I Was Not There by Karen Gershon
Race by Karen Gershon
Without Jews by Jacob Glatstein
Heritage by Hayim Gouri
Innocence by Thomson William Gunn
Between The Lines by Michael Hamburger
Treblinka by Michael Hamburger
The Book Of Yolek by Anthony Hecht
'more Light! More Light!' by Anthony Hecht
Passover: The Injections by William Heyen
Riddle by William Heyen
Ovid In The Third Reich by Geoffrey Hill
September Song by Geoffrey Hill
Roads by Peter Huchel
A Camp In The Prussian Forest by Randall Jarrell
In The Camp There Was One Alive by Randall Jarrell
My Little Sister, Sels by Abba Kovner
The Burning Of The Books by Lotte Kramer
The Red Cross Telegram by Lotte Kramer
The Shoemaker's Wife by Lotte Kramer
During The Eichmann Trial by Denise Levertov
Reveille by Primo Levi
Shema by Primo Levi
The Survivor by Primo Levi
A Poem Of Death by George Macbeth
Campo Dei Fiori by Czeslaw Milosz
A Poor Christian Looks At The Ghetto by Czeslaw Milosz
Draft Of A Reparations Agreement by Dan Pagis
Europe, Late by Dan Pagis
The Roll Call by Dan Pagis
Testimony by Dan Pagis
Written In Pencil In The Sealed Railway-car by Dan Pagis
Fable by Janos Pilinszky
Harbach 1944 by Janos Pilinszky
On The Wall Of A Kz-lager by Janos Pilinszky
Passion Of Ravensbruck by Janos Pilinszky
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Be Seeing You by Vasko Popa
Annotations Of Auschwitz: 1 by Peter Porter
Annotations Of Auschwitz: 2 by Peter Porter
Annotations Of Auschwitz: 3 by Peter Porter
Annotations Of Auschwitz: 4 by Peter Porter
Annotations Of Auschwitz: 5 by Peter Porter
Annotations Of Auschwitz: 6 by Peter Porter
Annotations Of Auschwitz: 7 by Peter Porter
May, 1945 by Peter Porter
Clouded Sky by Miklos Radnoti
Forced March by Miklos Radnoti
Postcards: Cservenka, October 6, 1944 by Miklos Radnoti
Postcards: Mohacs, October 24, 1944 by Miklos Radnoti
Postcards: Szentkiralyszabadja, October 31, 1944 by Miklos Radnoti
Holocaust 1944 by Anne Ranasinghe
Holocaust, Sels by Charles Reznikoff
Holocaust, Sels by Charles Reznikoff
Holocaust, Sels by Charles Reznikoff
In The Midst Of Life by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Leave Us by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Massacre Of The Boys by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Pigtail by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Posthumous Rehabilitation by Tadeusz Rozewicz
The Return by Tadeusz Rozewicz
The Survivor by Tadeusz Rozewicz
What Luck by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Already Embraced By The Arm Of Heavenly Solace by Nelly Leonie Sachs
A Dead Child Speaks by Nelly Leonie Sachs
O The Chimneys by Nelly Leonie Sachs
O The Night Of The Weeping Children! by Nelly Leonie Sachs
The German Frontier At Basel: 1942 & 1992 by Hilda Schiff
After Auschwitz by Anne Sexton
Synogogue In Prague by Alan Sillitoe
Elegy; In Honor Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 19,1943 by Antoni Slonimski
Burnt by Boris Abramovich Slutsky
How They Killed My Grandmother by Boris Abramovich Slutsky
I Set This Spoon Between Your Tight by William Dewitt Snodgrass
This Is The Glass Tube That Contains by William Dewitt Snodgrass
This Is The Needle That We Give by William Dewitt Snodgrass
History And Reality by Stephen Spender
Memento by Stephen Spender
A Cartload Of Shoes by Abraham (avrom) Sutzkever
How? by Abraham (avrom) Sutzkever
Poems For A Diary: 1980 by Abraham (avrom) Sutzkever
He Was Lucky by Anna Swir
I Believe by Anonymous
How Can I See You, Love by David Vogel
I Saw My Father Drowning by David Vogel
There Is A Last, Solitary Coach by David Vogel
Ani Maamin, Sels by Eli Wiesel
Never Shall I Forget by Eli Wiesel
Smoke Rose by Ittamar Yaoz-kest
Babii Yar by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
Against Parting by Natan Zach
Auschwitz, 1987 by Adam Zych
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Quill Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 095362806X
• ISBN 13: 9780953628063
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Hilda Schiff