The book opens with a "found poem" and then a poem in the voices of a family--the poet's--enjoying conversation over breakfast, in the US in 1938. The book then chronicles the Holocaust, in voices of witnesses (victims, Nazis, local civilians), and closes in the voice of a third generation member of that breakfasting family, who has visited Auschwitz after the war, and then the voice of the poet, in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

ISBN: 0-935306-47-1
Paper, 84 pages
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Praise for the poems in Whatever You Can Carry: Poems of the Holocaust:

"Not since Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz have I read a book so precise, so powerful, so terrifying." Thomas Lux

"I was tremendously moved by these poems--they are among the most passionately incised documents of Holocaust literature that I've read in a long time. I admire the poems as much afor their assiduously shaped litanies and exquisite verse rhythms as for their matchless authority of witnessing." Laurence Lieberman

"...lights a flame for those that were silenced...like tattooed numbers, these poems, these words brand our hearts." Vivian Shipley

"It's important that humanity never forget what happened...that's why we need these poems...poems like 'Ashes,' 'Sonderkommando,' and 'Whatever You Can Carry' are so good it hurts, and 'Don't Touch' is quite simply the best poem I've read in a long time." Robert Edwards

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