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The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust - Paperback
by Aaron Kramer (Editor), Aaron Kramer (Translator), Saul Lishinsky (Illustrator)
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 Biography
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 and Melville's Poetry: Toward the Enlarged Heart. In 1989, 370 of 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. Kramer has written his own books of poetry, including Indigo and Other Poems.
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.by Aaron Kramer (Editor), Aaron Kramer (Translator), Saul Lishinsky (Illustrator)
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 Biography
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 and Melville's Poetry: Toward the Enlarged Heart. In 1989, 370 of 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. Kramer has written his own books of poetry, including Indigo and Other Poems.
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