Synopsis
Historical events, however consequential, reduce easily to abstractions that quantify rather than qualify. Statistics, however disturbing, distance us from the responses that they should elicit. Lest we become anesthetized, we turn to fiction or poetry, to searing imagery and compression of language that crystallize for us the immeasurable elements of historic tragedy.A delicate and brave retelling of the Holocaust, The Death Mazurka rediscovers the human equation—numbers assume faces in a catalog of events that dance hauntingly before us. As the most humanistic of histories, this tight cycle of poems is riveting; as art, it engraves an unforgettable portrait of pain and beauty. What Charles Fishman has choreographed, memory will not relinquish.
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About the Author
Stern is the recipient of many awards, including the Lamont Prize, a Guggenheim, three NEA awards, a fellowship from The Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. He has taught at many universities, including Columbia University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Pittsburgh. He is now retired.
Review
After Our Birth
Auschwitz Nocturne
The Blackness Of Jews
A Camp Song Newly Heard
The Death Mazurka
European Movements
For Janusz Korczak
For The Yiddish Poets
Guide Me From This Safe Harbor
The Hatchet Leaps
History
How To Read Holocaust Poems
In Black Rain
Innsbruck: On The Goethe Way
Jewish Mouths
Landscape After Battle
The Liberator
A Morning At Dachau
Pomerantz Unburied In His Poems
Portrait Without A Face: 1. An Old Tree
Portrait Without A Face: 2. The Banner
Portrait Without A Face: 3. A Dog Licks My Face
The Race
September 1944
Something Floats Up
Special Report On The Holocaust
Star
A Stop On The Tour
Tracks Vanishing Into Sunlight
We Polish Jews: 1
We Polish Jews: 2
We Polish Jews: 3
We Polish Jews: 4
We Polish Jews: 5
Weltanschauung
Woodcutter In The Beech Wood
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