description: Holocaust Poetry is a lasting and solemn tribute to the memory of the past and to the hope of the future.Behold, God of Abraham, God of mercy,Open your eyes as you have opened mine,Open your eyes and see what I have seen... --Elie WieselShe felt a kind of envy forThose who stood naked in their Where to be one of her people wasTo be one of those millions killed. --Stephen SpenderAnd death looks on with a casual eyeand picks at the dirt under his fingernail. --Anne SextonConsider whether this is a man.Who labors in the mudWho knows no peaceWho fights for a crust of breadWho dies at a yes or a no. --Primo LeviThe volume includes 119 poems and the voices of 59 poets.
language: English
title: Holocaust Poetry
titlecomplete: Holocaust Poetry
genres: Poetry, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Jewish, Literature, Holocaust, Judaism, History, World War II
ratings_count: 308
publisher: Quill Press