Historical events, however consequential, reduce easily to abstractions that quantify rather than qualify. Statistics, however disturbing, distance us from the responses that they should elicit. Lest we become anesthetized, we turn to fiction or poetry, to searing imagery and compression of language that crystallize for us the immeasurable elements of historic tragedy. A delicate and brave retelling of the Holocaust, The Death Mazurka rediscovers the human equation—numbers assume faces in a catalog of events that dance hauntingly before us. As the most humanistic of histories, this tight cycle of poems is riveting; as art, it engraves an unforgettable portrait of pain and beauty. What Charles Fishman has choreographed, memory will not relinquish.
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After Our Birth
Auschwitz Nocturne
The Blackness Of Jews
A Camp Song Newly Heard
The Death Mazurka
European Movements
For Janusz Korczak
For The Yiddish Poets
Guide Me From This Safe Harbor
The Hatchet Leaps
History
How To Read Holocaust Poems
In Black Rain
Innsbruck: On The Goethe Way
Jewish Mouths
Landscape After Battle
The Liberator
A Morning At Dachau
Pomerantz Unburied In His Poems
Portrait Without A Face: 1. An Old Tree
Portrait Without A Face: 2. The Banner
Portrait Without A Face: 3. A Dog Licks My Face
The Race
September 1944
Something Floats Up
Special Report On The Holocaust
Star
A Stop On The Tour
Tracks Vanishing Into Sunlight
We Polish Jews: 1
We Polish Jews: 2
We Polish Jews: 3
We Polish Jews: 4
We Polish Jews: 5
Weltanschauung
Woodcutter In The Beech Wood
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Auschwitz Nocturne
The Blackness Of Jews
A Camp Song Newly Heard
The Death Mazurka
European Movements
For Janusz Korczak
For The Yiddish Poets
Guide Me From This Safe Harbor
The Hatchet Leaps
History
How To Read Holocaust Poems
In Black Rain
Innsbruck: On The Goethe Way
Jewish Mouths
Landscape After Battle
The Liberator
A Morning At Dachau
Pomerantz Unburied In His Poems
Portrait Without A Face: 1. An Old Tree
Portrait Without A Face: 2. The Banner
Portrait Without A Face: 3. A Dog Licks My Face
The Race
September 1944
Something Floats Up
Special Report On The Holocaust
Star
A Stop On The Tour
Tracks Vanishing Into Sunlight
We Polish Jews: 1
We Polish Jews: 2
We Polish Jews: 3
We Polish Jews: 4
We Polish Jews: 5
Weltanschauung
Woodcutter In The Beech Wood
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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I was looking for more depth considering the subject matter. I certainly felt the pain of the author, however I would have liked to see a bit more balance (along the lines of the movie "Life is Beautiful") which would serve to show the strength of the Jewish spirit.
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- Die Fledermaus by Strauss on page 38
- Die Fledermaus: Vocal Score (G. Schirmer Opera Score Editions) by Ruth Martin on page 38
- Chopin's Piano by Charles Ades Fishman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Art of Bicycling: A Treasury of Poems by Justin Daniel Belmont in Back Matter
- Sacred Fire: The Power of the First Element to Change Your Life by Maril Crabtree in Back Matter
- Cows: A Rumination by Carl Hileman in Back Matter
- Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge: Poems About Marriage by Ginny Lowe Connors in Back Matter
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