Description: Poems by and biographies of inmates of the Dachau Concentration Camp, testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual in the face of extreme suffering.
Brief description: STUART TABERNER is Professor of German at the University of Leeds, UK. He is Research Associate in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Review Quotes: [While] some of the poets may not have been 'trained' or 'literary' in any sense, the raw emotion captured in their verse rings clear across more than seventy years. . . . In tone and content, most of these poets are writing in a register somewhere between Whitman's 'barbaric yawp' and the Gerard Manley Hopkins of the 'terrible sonnets'-raw horror, disgust, shame, and confusion reign in this work from first to last. And yet, throughout, there is beauty in the horror.--James W. Wood "VALLUM MAGAZINE"