At 08:10 PM 1/29/2005, you wrote:
>>What can be said in the face of that? What 'poem'?
>
>I don't know. Maybe indirection is all there is. Yes, there is Nelly
>Sachs. How many others could go AT the Holocaust? Chaim Bialik could write
>"In the Town of Death" (also called "City of Slaughter") after the Kishinev
>pogroms but murder hadn't yet become an industrial enterprise. So what are
>we left with? Words, surely, but what can of poetry can it make?
My apologies this time for the usual typos and carelessness. I have had
the flu for three days and still feel pretty horrid. But this I had to
answer, mistakes and all.
ken
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