No apology necessary, Ken, as all such stories need to be repeated
again & again.
Actually being there is also an experience I could not really write 'a
poem' about; I mean just vsiting the place & taking the tour, & seeing
it as such.
Doug
On 29-Jan-05, at 6:32 PM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> 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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