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DESNOS READING THE PALMS OF MEN ON THEIR WAY TO THE GAS CHAMBERS by STEPHEN BERG

First Line: MAYBE I SHOULD GO BACK TO THE WHITE LEATHER
Last Line: DON'T YOU HEAR IT?
Subject(s): DESNOS, ROBERT (1900-1945); FORTUNE TELLERS; HOLOCAUST, JEWISH (1939-1945); HOPE; JEWS; PALMISTRY; SHOAH; OPTIMISM; JUDAISM;

Poem Sources:

GHOSTS OF THE HOLOCAUST; AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY BY THE SECOND GENERATION.
  FLORSHEIM, STUART J. (ED.)
  (1989)
 
VOICES WITHIN THE ARK; THE MODERN JEWISH POETS.
  SCHWARTZ, HOWARD, & RUDOLF, ANTHONY (EDS.)
  (1980)
 
TELLING AND REMEMBERING; A CENTURY OF AMERICAN JEWISH POETRY.
  RUBIN, STEVEN J. (ED.)
  (1997)
 
NEW & SELECTED POEMS.
  BERG, STEPHEN
  (1992)
 



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