Blue Tattoo : Poems of the Holocaust [Paperback]

Lyn Lifshin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 67 pages
• Publisher: Event Horizon Pr (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880391120
• ISBN-13: 978-1880391129
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,902,038 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A voyage into another dimension!, November 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Blue Tattoo : Poems of the Holocaust (Paperback)

Lyn's Holocaust poems give me the chilling perception that I've actually experienced life in a Nazi concenrtation camp. When I first read this book, I had the delusion that I was REMEMBERING, instead of simply ingesting, the experiences just by taking in the written words. Lyn must truly have the ability to travell in time as well as space. An awe-inspiring book, indeed!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Triumph of the Human Imagination!, January 11, 2002

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Jean Soulet (Sherbrooke, Quebec) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Tattoo : Poems of the Holocaust (Paperback)

Lyn Lifshin's collection of poems, "Blue Tattoo" is one more example of the genius of her ability to get inside the minds of people beyond her own place and time. In "Blue Tattoo" it is hard to believe that she has not actually experienced life in a Nazi death camp. In other books, she has demostrated this ability repeatedly; she has projected her imagination into the lives of prehistoric Native Americans, colonial New Englanders, and into the glitzy celebrity worlds of Madonna, Jackie O, to mention a couple. Lifshin is a true marvel!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Virtual Reality!, January 11, 2002

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Nimes Paul (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Tattoo : Poems of the Holocaust (Paperback)

As a former inmate of a Stalinist death camp, I'm simply amazed at the ability of Lyn Lifshin to recapture the essense of how horrific it is to be in such a degrading existence. Although Ms. Lifshin has never been an inmate in a Nazi death camp, she seems to have somehow tapped into the essense of it with chilling effect, and had I not known that she had not actually experienced such an ordeal, I would have believed to the contrary. She is a true genius!