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by: Barbara Helfgott Hyett, Barbara Helfgott Hyett
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780822953760
ISBN: 0822953765
Label: University of Pittsburgh Press
Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 161
Publication Date: 1986-05
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Sales Rank: 1749332
Studio: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Rating: - Wonderful book -- simple yet sophisticated
This is a wonderful book. The author has read the testimonies of Allied soldiers, who had liberated the concentration camps in Europe in WWII. Based on these testimonies, she created a set of vignettes in narrative poem form. Each mini-poem (all less than twenty lines long, with but a few words on each line) captures a thought or an experience. Since the author is recreating the experiences of others, I was worried that the poems would be derivative or schmaltzy. But such is not the case. The poems ... Read More
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