wpeE.jpg (1848 bytes)    Dear Poets,   Here is a list of poems on the theme of War and Holocaust, several of which we have covered.  For the Reminiscences period, please choose quotes from six or more of the following and learn them by heart.  S Eva's approach when she was with us was to identify a line and say, "I want that line!"  Perhaps you will find some lines like that here -- lines and words to serve as mini-talismans for your life. 

Theme 4: Poems about War, Holocaust
and Political Engagement

Your Quotes
choose six or more...

*Pinter 99 Poems 31 Celan, Paul 1920-1970 Deathfugue
*Pinter 99 Poems 110 Sachs, Nelly 1891-1970 Landscape of Screams
*Pinter 99 Poems 115 Segalen, Victor 1878-1919 Mongol Libation
*Pinter 99 Poems 1 Akhmatova, Anna 1889-1966 I am not among those who left our land
*Pinter 99 Poems 99 Prevert, Jacques 1900-1977 Pater Noster
*Pinter 99 Poems 63 Levi, Primo 1919-1987 Shema
*Pinter 99 Poems 108 Ritsos, Yannis 1909-1990 Search
*Pinter 99 Poems 49 Jouve, Jean Jouve 1887-1976 We have amazed by our great sufferings
*Pinter 99 Poems 23 Blok, Aleksandr 1880-1921 The Vulture
*Pinter 99 Poems 24 Brecht, Bertolt 1898-1956 War has been given a bad name
*Pinter 99 Poems 18 Aragon, Louis 1897-1982 The Lilacs and the Roses
*Rag and Bone Shop  73 Radnoti, Miklos Postcard
*Rag and Bone Shop 83 Homer The Homeric Hymn to Ares
*Rag and Bone Shop 89 Forché, Carolyn The Colonel