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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

by · 1993

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Bearing witness to extremity—whether of war, torture, exile, or repression—the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.

Subject
history
Genre
crimeliterary fictionwar and military
Themes
politicssocial issues
Setting
20th centuryHolocaust
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 816 pages
Form
poetry

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