The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust by Kramer, Aaron

The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815604785)

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The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust by Kramer, Aaron

The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust

$29.95
The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust by Kramer, Aaron

The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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The Last Lullaby is the culmination of Araon Kramer's fifty-year devotion to translating the poetry of the Holocaust. The full horror of the genocide and the sublime of those who resisted are given voice on these pages.

Placing each group in its historic and literary context with comprehensive introductory essays, Professor Kramer presents works mostly unavailable in English--until now. For the very first time, readers can become familiar with poets who experienced the horrors of the ghettos and the death camps and survived: Soviet poets; American poets who were forever transformed by the Holocaust. Kramer also introduces the 1944 Terezin opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis.

The Last Lullaby is a testament to the richness of a half-annihilated language that, in the pain of its survivors, was made more beautiful than ever before. Unlike most other translators, Kramer insists on maintaining the music of the original Yiddish, the often "folkish" cadence and rhyme that, he believes, are a precious part of these poems' legacy.

Author: Aaron Kramer
ISBN-10: 0815604785
ISBN-13: 9780815604785
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1998
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.33w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/15/1998 pg. 969
By Aaron Kramer
By Aaron Kramer
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Araon Kramer was a leading resistance poet throughout the McCarthy era, with such texts for music as Denmark Vesey and such volumes as Roll the Forbidden Drums! Professor of English at Dowling College since 1961, and founding coeditor of West Hills Review: A Whitman Journal, he produced such scholarly works as The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry (1962) and Melville's Poetry: Toward the Enlarged Heart (1972).
In 1989, 370 of Dr. Kramer's translations from the work of 135 Yiddish poets appeared in a widely praised anthology, A Century of Yiddish Poetry, which he also edited. Professor Kramer has written his own books of poetry, including Indigo and Other Poems (1991).

Saul Lishinsky has exhibited his works extensively, including shows in Libon, New York, Denver, and Connecticut. he has also published collections of both his drawings and poems.

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