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Subject: CONCENTRATION CAMPS Matches Found: 102 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming AND THE WAGES OF GOODNESS ARE NOT ASSURED, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That jacob stole his own brother's blessing Subject(s): Concentration Camps AROUND PASTOR BONHOEFFER: THE EXTERMINATION CAMP, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the half-open door of the hut Last Line: To face his brothers in the world Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Concentration Camps AUBADE OF THE SINGER AND SABOTEUR, MARIE TRISTE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the twenties, I would visit dachau often with my brother Last Line: Two of the old miracles. They were not my choices. Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Flowers; Music & Musicians; World War Ii - Atrocities AUSCHWITZ: FIRST, UNDRESS, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: One morning at about 4 a.M., while the rest of the lager slept, filip Last Line: Speaking to his subordinates: 'you see?' aumeyer said. 'you see? %that's the way to do it!' Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: LIKE BUTTERFLIES, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: The auschwitz 'angel of death,' josef mengele Last Line: Human eyes of every color %mounted on the wall like butterflies Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mengele, Josef (1911-1979) AUSCHWITZ: UNFORGETTABLE, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: A man who, in his youth in poland Last Line: Of setting these trained dogs on prisoners; %he cannot forget the third signal Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews AUSCHWITZ: UNFORGETTABLE II, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: Another man Last Line: This way, please, ladies, gentlemen...' %these things he once saw, he says, he can never forget Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BEAST IN THE SOUTH, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last the beast that moved south Last Line: Had hunted down to his den Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; South Africa BLUES, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Convexcavatious day Subject(s): Blues (mood); Concentration Camps BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal Last Line: Though they killed him in the camp they sent him to, %he will walk in as you're sitting down to a me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews BY THE RIVERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That spring he was fourteen Last Line: By the rivers of salt. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Duty; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Survival; Shoah; Judaism CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CHRYSANTHEMUMS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss yamada knew if a girl was tall and thin, or short and Last Line: Sting. These chrysanthemums stolen, crossing an ocean to %return them Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CONCENTRATION CONSTELLATION, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: In this earthly configuration Last Line: Of a twisted and remembered fence Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Japanese Americans - Internment; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864 COULD WE HAVE BEEN HER?, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Could we have been her Last Line: On a night of glittering bones? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Human Rights - Argentina; Jews - Women; Terror COYOTE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spotted him scouting antelope along bison basin road Last Line: Until the curve of his ribs began to cool beneath my fingers Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming CRAZED MAN IN CONCENTRATION CAMP, by AGNES GERGELY Poem Source First Line: All through the march, besides bag and blanket Last Line: And it meant nothing to him to be shot dead Subject(s): Concentration Camps CREMATORIUM IN DACHAU, by HANNES PETURSSON Poem Source First Line: Cunning building %of pink, slender stones Last Line: On a deflated belly, %not yet decomposed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Dachau, Germany; Human Rights DACHAU, by MARY KATHRYN STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: I was born within these confines Last Line: I am not allowed to go farther. %I will not go Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DACHAU [REVISITED], by RUTH DAIGON Poem Source First Line: By the light of the ovens Last Line: Curls into my mouth %like a mother tongue Subject(s): Concentration Camps DANCE OF WOODEN SHOES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother's in geta shoes Last Line: Shaped welts on yellow ivory Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming DEATH CAMP, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When they took us to the shower I saw Last Line: It was sunny and clear my smoke %was distinct I rose quiet left her %beneath Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Homosexuality DI MAGILAS FUN AUSHVITS (THE SCROLLS OF AUSCHSWITZ), by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He vanished & reappeared in a room no bigger than a Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Concentration Camps; Jews; Judaism DIE VERARBEITUNG, PROCESSING, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: In the words of ss unterscharfuhrer franz suchomel, treblinka was Last Line: Figure cited by some jews today Variant Title(s): A German Lesson; Treblink Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews DRILL AT NATHANYA, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: As strange as it would be to encounter a five-legged zebra Last Line: Thick and black against the ash-gray heavens Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Military EXPLICATION, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Waiting behind barbed wire Last Line: Smoke above the arms of trees Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Czechoslovakia; Genocide FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FISH WIFE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of the hook in my lip Last Line: And gleaming coils of fine, silk twine Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming FOR RUDOLF HOESS, COMMANDANT OF AUSCHWITZ: 2., by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: Anne frank opened her diary Last Line: Stroked her dark hair, looked in her eyes. %ash of your years, hoess, afflicts heaven still Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Frank, Anne (1929-1945) GESTAPO PRISON GUARD NAMED HILDA, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Concentration Camps HAIR, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a scene in the film Subject(s): Hair; Motion Pictures; Concentration Camps; Movies; Cinema HARBACH 1944, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: At all times I see them Last Line: Its gates flung savagely back, %death gapes to its hinges Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 1. KIMIKO OZAWA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oka-san keeps stuffing rags under Last Line: To keep from blowing away Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 10. MINORU SAITO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I shaved my head and became Last Line: That made me say no Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 2. JIMMY YAMAMOTO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Papa says we must tell the hospital Last Line: I see the man-in-the-moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 3. MASA NAKAHARA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am thinking about the temple Last Line: Serial number in its ear Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 4. CHESTER KOREMATSU, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish are heavier than coal Last Line: Between flames and water Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 5. LILY IWASAKI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minoru, it's been over a month Last Line: Full of rage and cunning Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 6. SAM TOYAMA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother held up a wrinkled fashion Last Line: Kicking me in the face inside her Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 7. NINA INOUE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the shoe ration, I can't play Last Line: I learned what it means to be kind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 8. YOSHIO MIYAKE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It sours my incense, disturbs the sleep Last Line: Will suddenly wake, eyes spitting blood Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HEART MOUNTAIN, 1943: 9. CHIKAKO OKANO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know tweezing away dead skin Last Line: The scars I leave behind Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother recognized / my feet and claimed me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HIROSHIMA MAIDEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother recognized %my feet and claimed me Last Line: Richly embroidered %by unfamiliar hands Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming HOLOCAUST, SELECTION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jews from holland, france, and hungary, and later from greece Last Line: And there were two pyres of bodies burning all the time Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Concentration Camps HUNGER CAMP AT JASYO, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Write it. Write. In ordinary ink Subject(s): Concentration Camps HUNGER CAMP AT JASYO, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Write it. Write. In ordinary ink Last Line: Write: how silent. %'yes' Subject(s): Concentration Camps IN THE CAMP THERE WAS ONE ALIVE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flakes pour to the black dead Last Line: The footsteps die was he dies Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Concentration Camps; Shoah; Judaism INSIDE DACHAU, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having lied to our german hosts about our plan Last Line: I have nothing new to say about death. Subject(s): Dachau, Germany; Concentration Camps INSIDE DACHAU: 2. HISTORY AS THE HOME MOVIE, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It begins and ends with ash, though we insist Last Line: Decades after dachau fell, we stand in mist %that begins and ends with ash Subject(s): Concentration Camps INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Let us take %what we can Last Line: Let there be %order. %let us be %wise Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Asian Americans - Japanese; Concentration Camps; Home; Japanese Americans - Internment KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming; Dreams KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell %you otherwise Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming LEGENDS FROM CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: It began as truth, as fact Last Line: Will anyone ever need %another camp director Subject(s): Buddhism; Concentration Camps; Crime And Criminals; History; Japanese Americans - Internment; Legends; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Terror LOOKING BACK AT CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: To get into the fair Last Line: This is not amache!' Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Concentration Camps; Japanese Americans - Internment; Prisons And Prisoners MERCY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I see him in the middle of a field Last Line: Go about their loving Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Cruelty; History; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mercy MITTEN SPRINGS: 1. BENNY'S PLACE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We made camp %by the springs Last Line: Flung from the snow Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 2. ANTELOPE HUNTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stirring up grouse Last Line: Of dust and hoofbeats Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming MITTEN SPRINGS: 3. GUTTING, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sawing the ribcage %was hard work Last Line: The spicy sage taste %run through me Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took me everywhere Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming NINGYO, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She took me everywhere Last Line: Opening the sky Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gleaming arc / of knife Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming ODE TO SHUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gleaming arc %of knife Last Line: A white moon Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming OYURUSHI, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We danced hopscotch squares Last Line: I am your sister Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PASSION OF RAVENSBRUCK, by JANOS PILINSZKY Poem Source First Line: He steps out from the others Last Line: That he forgot to cry out %before he collapsed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; World War Ii PEACH GIRL, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apprehended by snow Last Line: And you will spit it out Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEARLS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother eats seaweed and plum pickles Last Line: It hurts. And the more it hurts, %the bigger the pearl Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LANTERN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not forget me Last Line: Her own limbs, one by one Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PEONY LOVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thinnest sliver of moon, and caterpillars Last Line: Of peony petals crumpling in my fists Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming PIGTAIL, by TADEUSZ ROZEWICZ Poem Source First Line: When all the women in the transport Last Line: Pulled at school %by naughty boys Subject(s): Concentration Camps POEMS FROM AMACHE CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Dear lawson, %2 ys u r, %s ys u b Last Line: I meet you at %amache gate! %always, %naomi Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Japanese Americans - Internment; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864 PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine; Shoah; Judaism PROTOCOLS (BIRKENAU, ODESSA; THE CHILDREN SPEAK ALTERNATELY), by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We went there on the train. They had big barges that towed Last Line: And that is how you die. And that is how you die Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Odessa, Ukraine QUESTIONS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I will not rest easy with my questions Last Line: But the men %cloaked in darkness Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; History; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence SIGNAL, by JOHANNES EDFELT Poem Source First Line: He awaits a signal of a sort that he thinks cannot be compared Last Line: Fraction of a second is poised on the hair-line edge between being and nonbeing Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SONGS FOR AN APPROACHING RAINY SEASON, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the tomatoes will blush Last Line: And pry each of my petals loose Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ..., by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands that were nailed, the ankles that were pierced as if one Last Line: The cloud appeared to him by day and the little star by night. Subject(s): Angels; Concentration Camps; Crucifixion; Death; Jews; Religion; Spirituality; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology SQUID, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purplish pink, their bodies were mottled with black dots, like Last Line: Water, and when I held them up to my nose they smelled like %another country Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 1. SUMIDA RIVER, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rice-paper lanterns bob Last Line: The sides of the boats %in judgment Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 2. ORIHIME'S SONG, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came from mulberry trees Last Line: To have you inside me again Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming STAR FESTIVAL: 3. A THOUSAND CRANES, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to the bamboo grove Last Line: I am selfish Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming THE BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am praying again, god -- pale god Last Line: That's all we needed: a good war . . . Subject(s): Absence; Angels; Concentration Camps; Fathers & Daughters; Feathers; Guilt; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Memory; Prayer; Relationships; Salvation; Separation; Isolation; Judaism THE FIRST STATION: AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the serpent: Subject(s): Concentration Camps THE WIDOW OF THE BEAST OF INGOLSTADT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A fork in the garden, the widow digging Last Line: Her husband's watch had just stopped in his grave. Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Marriage; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Second World War THE WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand outside my gate Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming THE WOMEN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Were not treated so well as I. Last Line: To work a miracle with everything left to her Subject(s): Women; Concentration Camps; Hair TREBLINKA, by HENRY F. BEECHHOLD Poem Source First Line: Here are the ruins Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, by MARTIN EDMUNDS Poem Source First Line: Still, when the wind is right Last Line: Could you be the heilige jungfrau %of belsen and birkenau? Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews TREBLINKA, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: That winter night they were burning corpses Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews UTOYASUKATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's a black bird Last Line: And you'll say yasukata Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming WAR OF THE SECRET AGENTS: 3. ANONYMOUS: ON A WALL AT BUCHENWALD, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: 11 november 1944 %I had one motive Last Line: Loyalty, and I carried it too far. %goodbye, goldilocks. Goodbye Subject(s): Concentration Camps WAR OF THE SECRET AGENTS: 4. KIEFFER'S DIARY: 1942-45: EXCERPTS, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: It is like a musical composition Last Line: They fear what I might say, yet I would not speak: %the methods the methods go on Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Diaries WOMAN WHO LOVES INSECTS, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you stand outside my gate Last Line: My honeybee. %my centipede Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming |
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