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Black Sparrow Press, 1977. Black Sparrow is proud to restore to print one of the great long poems of the late 20th century, Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust, originally published in 1975. Reznikoff's subject is one 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 themselves. He lets the terrible history unfold -- in history's own words. Reznikoff's technique, says David Lehman, "contradicts the very faculty of understanding. He lets reality speak for itself, lets it state the externals of the thing or event, and leaves unspoken (or…
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- Date 1975
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Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. In illustrated white wrappers. Printed in February 1975 in Santa Barbara and Ann Arbor for the Black Sparrow Press. 111 pages. Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust is one of the few poems on the Holocaust that calls Adorno's famous quotation into doubt. This book is composed solely of Holocaust survivor testimony distilled from twenty-six volumes of documentation of the Eichmann and Nuremberg trials. Using transcriptions from the court proceedings, the entire poem is devoid of metaphorical language and the rhetorical framework of interpretation. As in court testimony, there are no conclusions, no judgments that would preclude the hearing: More than twenty years after his death, Reznikoff's poetry continues to be dismissed by poets outside the mainstream as "prose narrative" and by the mainstream as nonexistent. Few readers of poetry have ever heard of Reznikoff, despite that his poetry is perhaps the most direct and available of all the American…
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