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REZNIKOFF, Charles : Holocaust

Five Leaves Publications, Nottingham 2010

First edition, thus with Introduction by George Szirtes. Paperback. Covers are very slightly shelfworn o/w NR. FINE. SCARCE.

Reznikoff, Charles : Holocaust

Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1975

ISBN 0876852312

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 modernists. Reznikoff's poetry incorporated social, historical, and ethical dimensions into one of objectivism's high-profile precursors, imagism, and developed the traditions of the prose-, found-, docu-, and epic poem, as well as the cross-semination of literary and legal genres ( Dan Featherstone). Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Illustrated Soft Cover