The terror of our days
four American poets respond to the Holocaust
by Harriet L. Parmet
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"The Holocaust remains incomprehensible to the world at large and without a compelling claim on most people's lives. By contrast the term "Holocaust" occupies a central place in Jewish vocabulary, and it is kept current in American letters and film. This book reflects on and analyzes poetry by four contemporary Americans - Sylvia Plath, William Heyen, Gerald Stern, and Jerome Rothenberg - none of whom directly experienced the war of annihilation directed against European Jewry.
For these poets, who must accommodate what they cannot ignore or deny, writing becomes a moral obligation as commemoration, catharsis, atonement, history, insistence on human sensitivities, resistance to brutalization, indifference, and flight from consequences."--BOOK JACKET.
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World War, 1939-1945, Literature and society, Jews in literature, Literature and the war, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, American poetry, History, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th centuryPlaces
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The terror of our days: four American poets respond to the Holocaust
2001, Lehigh University Press, Associated University Presses
in English
0934223637 9780934223638
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-263) and index.
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation (Lehigh University).
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