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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
This anthology brings together 120 poems about World War II by 62 American poets, chosen, as editor Harvey Shapiro writes in his introduction, "with a purpose: to demonstrate that the American poets of this war produced a body of work that has not yet been recognized for its clean and powerful eloquence." The poets are generally unsentimental, ironic, and often astonished by what they have experienced, and their insights still have the power to shake...
Author
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Aquila Polonica
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Winner 2017 Benjamin Franklin GOLD AWARD for POETRY. Winner 2017 MONTAIGNE MEDAL for most thought-provoking books.
"A searing memoir." - Shelf Awareness
"Powerful...Deserves attention and high regard." - Kevin Stein, Poet Laureate of Illinois
"Devastating, one-of-a-kind collection." - Foreword Reviews
"Gut-wrenching narrative lyric poems." - Publishers Weekly
"Taut...beautifully realized." - World Literature Today
In this major tour de force,...
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