num_pages: 812
description: This landmark anthology, the first of its kind, takes it impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: "In these dark times, will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About the dark times." Bearing witness to extremity―whether of war, torture, exile, or repression―the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.
language: English
title: Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
titlecomplete: Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
genres: Historical, Literature, History, Reference, Holocaust, Anthologies, War, Poetry, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 615
publisher: Norton