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1989. 96 pages.
0896722066
978-0-89672-206-4
$8.95 paper
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The Death Mazurka: Poems By Charles Fishman
Foreword by Gerald Stern
Historical events, however consequential, reduce easily to abstractions that quantify rather than qualify. Statistics, however disturbing, distance us from the responses that they should elicit. Lest we become anesthetized, we turn to fiction or poetry, to searing imagery and compression of language that crystallize for us the immeasurable elements of historic tragedy.
A delicate and brave retelling of the Holocaust,
The Death Mazurka rediscovers the human equation--numbers assume faces in a catalog of events that dance hauntingly before us. As the most humanistic of histories, this tight cycle of poems is riveting; as art, it engraves an unforgettable portrait of pain and beauty. What Charles Fishman has choreographed, memory will not relinquish.
European Movements
Jewish Mouths
Star
The Hatchet Leaps
Woodcutter in the Beech Wood
For Janusz Korczak
A Stop on the Tour
After Our Birth
Innsbruck: On the Goethe Way
A Morning at Dachau
Tracks Vanishing into Sunlight
The Liberator
Landscape after Battle
For the Yiddish Poets
Pomerantz Unburied in His Poems
A Camp Song Newly Heard
In Black Rain
Auschwitz Nocturne
The Blackness of Jews
Special Report on the Holocaust
Guide Me from This Safe Harbor
History
The Race
The Death Mazurka
September 1944
We Polish Jews
Portrait without a Face
Weltanschauung
Something Floats Up
How to Read Holocaust Poems
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