Terra Treblinka. Holocaust poems
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Eyes from the ashes
collecting dust on shelves
in rusting locked sheds in Poland.
Eyes from the ashes forgotten
for decades
on snowy peaks of the Carpathian mountains.
Collected meticulously in post-war archives.
Classified by diameter and focus.
Eyes from the ashes
wondering searching for other eyes
from the ashes in Europe’s streams and rivers,
analyzed by paleontologists in
rock fragments in river beds.
Eyeless ashes spreading
on fields,polluting the
German countryside.
Eyes alone piling up,
filling up
citadels of ancient cities.
Eyes alone floating in
the vacuum of the world.
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In his new collection Terra Treblinka: Holocaust Poems Hanoch Guy brings readers into the rough terrain of Holocaust memory. At once vivid and piercing these poems neither pretend immediacy nor do they shy away from exploring the intimacies of traumatic memory. Through these poems, Guy constructs links in the chain of memory. He shows us how extended and intimate engagements with the works of survivor poets and writers make this possible. What he recreates is not so much the physical landscape of Treblinka but rather its abiding haunting presence. These are fierce and heartbreaking poems. Bristling with passion and rage, in their specificity these poems demonstrate what it means to keep the legacy of the Holocaust alive in the present.
Laura S. Levitt, Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender, Temple University. Among other works, she is the author of American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (2007) and an editor of Impossible Images: Contemporary Art after the Holocaust (2003).
About the Author
Hanoch Guy spent his childhood among cacti and citrus groves He is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English, Hanoch teaches Hebrew and Jewish literature at Temple university
He has published poetry in The International Journal of Genocide studies ,Poetry Motel,Visions International. Voices Israel and several times in Poetica where he won an award . He is last published in Apiary magazine
His articles on Holocaust poetry are in :Holocaust lierature.Routledge press V1 2003.
He has won an award in the Mad Poets Society and Poetry Matters.
His book :The road to Timbucktu/Travel poems was published in 2012.