In Evidence : Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps

Hyett, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0822935260 / ISBN 13: 9780822935261

Published by Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., 1986

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Not signed by the author but this book is from the library of noted writer Caryl Phillips with his signature, the date and London written on the front end paper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Evidence : Poems of the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
• Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822935260
• ISBN 13: 9780822935261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Light Edgewear Dj
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

In Evidence is a collection of poems in the voices of allied troops who liberated Nazi concentration camps in Europe in the sprong of 1945. Barbara Helfgott Hyett heard poems in the eyewitness testimony of United States soldiers. She has shaped the words of thirty speakers into a songle narrative, a single voice.

Review

"In Evidence is as stark as the stark realities it confronts. The 'liberation" its poems describe was a liberation only for a frightening few sad survivors. For the dead, and for the rest of humanity, it was a condemnation of the soul from which in some ways we shall never recover. This is a valuable and unfortunately a necessary work." --C. K. Williams -In Evidence is as stark as the stark realities it confronts. The 'liberation- its poems describe was a liberation only for a frightening few sad survivors. For the dead, and for the rest of humanity, it was a condemnation of the soul from which in some ways we shall never recover. This is a valuable and unfortunately a necessary work.- --C. K. Williams