Holocaust poetry / compiled and edited by Hilda Schiff.

Includes bibliographical references (page xxiv) and indexes.

Alienation -- "Heritage" / Hayim Gouri -- "Europe, Late" / Dan Pagis -- "The Shoemaker's Wife" / Lotte Kramer -- "The Burning of the Books" / Bertolt Brecht -- "First They Came for the Jews" / Pastor Niemoller -- "A Footnote Extended" / Dannie Abse -- "Refugee Blues" / W. H. Auden -- "How Can I See You, Love" / David Vogel -- -- Persecution -- "1940" / Bertolt Brecht -- "The Red Cross Telegram" / Lotte Kramer -- "The German Frontier at Basel" / Hilda Schiff -- "He Was Lucky" / Anna Swirszczynska -- "I Saw My Father Drowning" / David Vogel -- "There Is a Last, Solitary Coach" / David Vogel -- "Clouded Sky" / Miklos Radnoti -- "The Butterfly" / Pavel Friedmann -- "Elegy" / Antoni Slonimski -- "A Cartload of Shoes" / Abraham Sutzkever -- "How They Killed My Grandmother" / Boris Slutsky -- (from) "Holocaust" / Charles Reznikoff -- "The Assumption of Miriam" / Jerzy Ficowski -- -- Destruction -- (i) -- "Death Fugue" / Paul Celan -- "O the Chimneys" / Nelly Sachs -- "Never Shall I Forget" / Elie Wiesel -- "Testimony" / Dan Pagis -- "The Roll Call" / Dan Pagis -- "Be Seeing You" / Vasko Popa -- "Forced March" / Miklos Radnoti -- "Postcards" / Miklos Radnoti -- "Harbach 1944" / Janos Pilinszky -- "Passion of Ravensbruck" / Janos Pilinszky -- "On the Wall of a KZ-Lager" / Janos Pilinszky -- "Fable, Detail from his KZ-Oratorio: Dark Heaven" / Janos Pilinszky -- "Roads" / Peter Huchel -- "A Poem of Death" / George Macbeth -- "Night over Birkenau" / Tadeusz Borowski -- "Treblinka" / Michael Hamburger -- "Shipment to Maidanek" / Ephraim Fogel -- "Remembering Dresden" / Van K. Brock -- (ii) -- "Passover: the Injections" / William Heyen -- "A Girl of Six from the Ghetto" / Jerzy Ficowski -- "5.8.1942, In Memory of Janusz Korczak" / Jerzy Ficowski -- (from) "Holocaust" / Charles Reznikoff -- "A Dead Child Speaks" / Nelly Sachs -- "Already Embraced by the Arm of Heavenly Solace" / Nelly Sachs -- "O the Night of the Weeping Children!" / Nelly Sachs -- "Massacre of the Boys" / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- "Pigtail" / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- "In the Camp There Was One Alive" / Randall Jarrell -- "Magda Goebbels" / W. D. Snodgrass -- (iii) -- "Burnt" / Boris Slutsky -- "Innocence" / Thom Gunn -- (from) "Holocaust" / Charles Reznikoff -- -- Rescuers, Bystanders, Perpetrators -- "Both Your Mothers" / Jerzy Ficowski -- "1980" / Abraham Sutzkever -- "I Did Not Manage to Save" / Jerzy Ficowski -- "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto" / Czeslaw Milosz -- "History and Reality" / Stephen Spender -- "Babii Yar" / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- "Ovid in the Third Reich" / Geoffrey Hill -- "September Song" / Geoffrey Hill -- "A Camp in the Prussian Forest" / Randall Jarrell -- "'More Light, More Light,'" / Anthony Hecht -- "Between the Lines" / Michael Hamburger -- "A German Requiem" / James Fenton -- -- Afterwards -- "Archive Film Material" / Ruth Fainlight -- "Far, Far a City Lies (from 'My Little Sister')" / Abba Kovner -- "Auschwitz, 1987" / Adam Zych -- "Memento" / Stephen Spender -- "Leave Us" / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- "Reveille" / Primo Levi -- "The Survivor" / Primo Levi -- "The Sun of Auschwitz" / Tadeusz Borowski -- "Farewell to Maria" / Tadeusz Borowski -- "The Execution of Memory" / Jerzy Ficowski -- "My Mother's Friend" / Lily Brett -- "La Pathetique" / Lily Brett -- "I, the Survivor" / Bertolt Brecht -- "The Retum" / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- -- Second Generation -- "Almost a Love Poem" / Yehuda Amichai -- "Draft of a Reparations Agreement" / Dan Pagis -- "I Was Not There" / Karen Gershon -- "When it Happened" / Hilda Schiff -- "I Keep Forgetting" / Lily Brett -- "Leaving You" / Lily Brett -- "Holocaust 1944" / Anne Ranasinghe -- "The Book of Yolek" / Anthony Hecht -- "Daddy" / Sylvia Plath -- "Against Parting" / Natan Zach -- -- Lessons -- "Annotations of Auschwitz" / Peter Porter -- "If" / Edward Bond -- "How We See" / Edward Bond -- "The Survivor" / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- "In the Midst of Life" / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- "Race" / Karen Gershon -- "Synagogue in Prague" / Alan Sillitoe -- "During the Eichmann Trial" / Denise Levertov -- "Campo dei Fiori" / Czeslaw Milosz -- "Posthumous Rehabilitation" / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- "May, 1945" / Peter Porter -- "War Has Been Given a Bad Name" / Bertolt Brecht -- "Portrait of a House Detective" / Hans Magnus Enzenberger -- "Riddle" / William Heyen -- "Annus Mirabilis 1989" / Elaine Feinstein -- -- God -- (i) -- "Smoke Rose" / Itamar Yaoz-Kest -- "Written in Pencil" / Dan Pagis -- "Zurich, the Stork Inn" / Paul Celan -- "Who Am I?" / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- "I Believe" / Anonymous -- "What Luck" / Tadeusz Rozewicz -- (ii) -- "Without Jews" / Jacob Glatstein -- "Experiments With God" / Karen Gershon -- "The Jugs" / Paul Celan -- "Psalm" / Paul Celan -- "After Auschwitz" / Anne Sexton -- "Discovery" / Hilda Schiff -- "Ani Maamin" / Elie Wiesel -- "Shema" / Primo Levi -- -- Biographical Details of Poets