- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : St. Martin's Griffin, [1995]
©1995
- Contents
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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
- Other Authors/Editors
- Schiff, Hilda.
- Notes
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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