The Auschwitz Poems
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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From the silence of survival comes a voice that refuses to be extinguished — Lily Brett's The Auschwitz Poems is a shattering and deeply personal collection that bears witness to the Holocaust through the inherited trauma of a child of survivors. Brett, herself born in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the war, channels her parents' harrowing experiences in Auschwitz into a series of raw, unflinching poems that oscillate between anguish and resilience, memory and loss, the unbearable past and the struggle to inhabit the present. Awarded the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry, this landmark collection stands as one of Australian literature's most courageous confrontations with generational grief and the long shadow of atrocity. Brett's verse is deceptively spare — each line carries an enormous emotional weight, accumulating into a testament that is as much an act of mourning as it is of defiance. Accompanied by drawings from artist David Rankin, the collection transcends elegy to become something altogether more urgent: a demand that history be felt, not merely remembered. For anyone who believes poetry can hold what prose cannot, this is a collection that will not let you go.
Author: Lily Brett
Format: Paperback
Published: 1988, Scribe Publications
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the silence of survival comes a voice that refuses to be extinguished — Lily Brett's The Auschwitz Poems is a shattering and deeply personal collection that bears witness to the Holocaust through the inherited trauma of a child of survivors. Brett, herself born in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the war, channels her parents' harrowing experiences in Auschwitz into a series of raw, unflinching poems that oscillate between anguish and resilience, memory and loss, the unbearable past and the struggle to inhabit the present. Awarded the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry, this landmark collection stands as one of Australian literature's most courageous confrontations with generational grief and the long shadow of atrocity. Brett's verse is deceptively spare — each line carries an enormous emotional weight, accumulating into a testament that is as much an act of mourning as it is of defiance. Accompanied by drawings from artist David Rankin, the collection transcends elegy to become something altogether more urgent: a demand that history be felt, not merely remembered. For anyone who believes poetry can hold what prose cannot, this is a collection that will not let you go.