Traumatic Verses: On Poetry in German from the Concentration Camps, 1933-1945

by Andrés Nader

Close readings of -- and the stories behind -- poems that are direct documents of the Holocaust.

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Christianstadt, Dachau. The names of Nazi concentration camps evoke images of radical destitution. The atrocities we call the Holocaust defy comprehension, while thinkers continue to ponder the possibility of "poetry after Auschwitz." And yet a number of people composed poems while imprisoned in the camps. Unlike most documents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134808
• ISBN13: 9781571134806
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"