Terra Treblinka. Holocaust poems

by Hanoch Guy Kaner


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Softcover
£8.95
Softcover
£8.95

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 31/08/2012

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 60
ISBN : 9781477259078

About the Book

In his new collection Terra Treblinka: Holocaust Poems Hanoch Guy brings readers into the rough terrain of Holocaust memory. At once vivid and piercing these poems neither pretend immediacy nor do they shy away from exploring the intimacies of traumatic memory. Through these poems, Guy constructs links in the chain of memory. He shows us how extended and intimate engagements with the works of survivor poets and writers make this possible. What he recreates is not so much the physical landscape of Treblinka but rather its abiding haunting presence. These are fierce and heartbreaking poems. Bristling with passion and rage, in their specificity these poems demonstrate what it means to keep the legacy of the Holocaust alive in the present.



Laura S. Levitt, Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender, Temple University. Among other works, she is the author of American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (2007) and an editor of Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust (2003).


About the Author

Hanoch Guy spent his childhood among cacti and citrus groves He is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English, Hanoch teaches Hebrew and Jewish literature at Temple university


He has published poetry in The International Journal of Genocide studies ,Poetry Motel,Visions International. Voices Israel and several times in Poetica where he won an award . He is last published in Apiary magazine


His articles on Holocaust poetry are in :Holocaust lierature.Routledge press V1 2003.


He has won an award in the Mad Poets Society and Poetry Matters.


His book :The road to Timbucktu/Travel poems was published in 2012.