In Evidence: Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps

by Barbara Helfgott Hyett

Overview

In Evidence is a collection of poems in the voices of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps in Europe in the sprong of 1945. Barbara Helfgott Hyett heard poems in the eyewitness testimony of United States soldiers. She has shaped the words of thirty speakers into a songle narrative, a single voice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822991922
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	03/19/2024
Series:	Pitt Poetry Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	378 KB

About the Author

Barbara Helfgott Hyett's poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Massachusetts Review, and many other magazines. A teacher of writing at Boston University, she has edited the memoirs of a Holocaust survivor as well as several anthologies of poems by children.

Editorial Reviews

"In Evidence is as stark as the stark realities it confronts. The 'liberation" its poems describe was a liberation only for a frightening few sad survivors. For the dead, and for the rest of humanity, it was a condemnation of the soul from which in some ways we shall never recover. This is a valuable and unfortunately a necessary work."
—C. K. Williams

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