In Evidence : Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps

Hyett, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0822935260 / ISBN 13: 9780822935261

Published by Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., 1986

About this Item

Near Fine/Very Good + Light Edgewear Dj. First Edition. Signed. This book is from the library of noted writer Caryl Phillips with his signature, the date and London written on the front endpaper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Evidence : Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
• Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822935260
• ISBN 13: 9780822935261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Light Edgewear Dj
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

In Evidence is a collection of poems in the voices of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps in Europe in the sprong of 1945. Barbara Helfgott Hyett heard poems in the eyewitness testimony of United States soldiers. She has shaped the words of thirty speakers into a songle narrative, a single voice.

About the Author

<b>Barbara Helfgott Hyett's</b> poems have appeared in <i>The Nation, The New Republic, The Massachusetts Review,</i> and many other magazines. A teacher of writing at Boston University, she has edited the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor as well as several anthologies of poems by children.