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While I am Drawing Breath - Hardcover

Auslander, Rose

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Synopsis

The experience of living in the Chernovtsy ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow of all the poetry Auslander wrote, though she rarely addresses it explicitly. The hardships of a life in hiding, the constant fear of Nazi terror, the horror of the concentration camps are all present in many of the poems.

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About the Author

Rose Auslander, who died in 1988, was a Jewish German- and English language poet. She was born in Bucovina (on what is now the Romania/Ukraine border), and lived in U.S.A, Romania, and Germany. By the end of her life, she was recognised as one of the truest poets of post-war Germany, a woman and a witness in whom the dark and the light, the ashes and the hope, are so finely balanced that we hold our breath as we read.

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