By Joseph Skibell. By Joseph Skibell. THIS book proves once again that T.W. Adorno was wrong. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric, admonished the outspoken philosopher. Primo Levi proved this to the world soon after the war with his chilling, precise and moving memoir, Survival in Auschwitz .
Blessing begins with the murder of a Jewish community in a Polish village.
They rounded us up, took us out to the forests. We stood there, shivering, like trees in uneven rows, and one by one we fell. I felt lighter than ever before in my life. It was all I could do not to giggle. And I realized I was dead.