Holocaust

Holocaust Reissue available Spring 2021, timed for National Poetry Month in April (COOP available.). Other new Godine / Black Sparrow titles for poetry promotions in April 2021 are Bone Rosary by Thomas Lynch, Old Poets by Donald Hall, and American Wake by Kerrin McCadden. We are also reissing Bathwater Wine by Wanda Coleman from the Black Sparrow backlist. And keep in mind Wicked Enchantment by Wanda Coleman from Spring 2020

In Holocaust poet Charles Reznikoff’s subject is people’s suffering at the hand of another. His source materials are the U.S. government’s record of the trials of the Nazi criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal and the transcripts of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. Except for the twelve part titles, none of the words here are Reznikoff’s own: instead he has created, through selection, arrangement, and the rhythms of the testimony set as verse on the page, a poem of witness by the perpetrators and the survivors of the Holocaust. He lets the terrible history unfold—in history’s own words.