A Wall of Two - Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Krakow to Buchenwald and Beyond (Paperback)

"Ilona Karmel once wrote of the work of turning 'the cold, old-fashioned, iron key of memory.' These recovered poems of Ilona and her elder sister Henia open the space behind memory's door, and it is on fire with defiant passion -with longing, with terror, and the raw drive to bear witness in the one way possible to the life-in-death of the camps. Henia writes, 'These poems came about when I was still creating myself.' The two sisters here are speaking themselves and each other into existence; and this essential work of claiming our humanity has rarely been so costly, and so moving."--Allen Grossman
"The book is a riveting read. The subject, of course, is very compelling and the poems move with great plainness, vividness, and force. The girls survived, though barely, because they were young and strong and because the German war machine needed their bodies. The book is artfully designed to convey the arc of their story from capture to freedom in 1946, and there is, as far as I know, nothing quite like it in the vast literature of the Holocaust. A unique and moving book, of historical significance, rendered into English by one of our most gifted American poets."--Robert Hass

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	October 2007
Authors:	Henia Karmel • Ilona Karmel
Translators:	Arie A. Galles • Warren Niesluchowski
Introduction by:	Fanny Howe
Dimensions:	203 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	158
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-25136-6
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-520-25136-9
Barcode:	9780520251366

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