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10 best books like Holocaust Poetry (Hilda Schiff): Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, The 100 Best Poems of All Time, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader, The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader, The Best American Poetry 2009, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Anna Akhmatova

Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
AuthorLillian Faderman
ISBN0140172483
In Chloe Plus Olivia Lillian Faderman seeks no less than to radically redefine four centuries of lesbian literature, filling a need that has long been neglected: a literary anthology of lesbian writers over the past four centuries, with each piece set in historical and literary context. This landmark...
The 100 Best Poems of All Time
AuthorLeslie Pockell
ISBN0446676810
Some great poetry; I tried to read one or two to start off each day. Two new favorites:

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night - Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise...
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
AuthorHelen Vendler
ISBN0674048679
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's...
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath
AuthorElise Paschen
ISBN1570717206
Poetry Speaks features the work of the most influential writers in modern poetry-written and performed-from 1892 to 1997. This book combines their most significant poems in print with the authors themselves reading their poetry on audio CD. Poets range from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman,...
The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection
AuthorClifton Fadiman
ISBN0395368057
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
AuthorGeorge Gibian
ISBN0140151036
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader magnificently represents the great voices of this era. It includes such masterworks of world literature as Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman"; Gogol's "The Overcoat"; Turgenev's novel First Love; Chekhov's Uncle Vanya; Tolstoy's The Death of...
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader
AuthorClarence Brown
ISBN0142437573
Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and...
The Best American Poetry 2009
AuthorDavid Wagoner
ISBN1439166269
David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner's superb...
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0393309762
I read this for my Poetry & Protest class and I just wanted to catalogue the poems that I read on Goodreads. I'd love to read this whole collection someday and hopefully I will, but for now, here are the poems that I have read:

"A Working Party" by Siegfried Sassoon
Really intense poem that...
Anna Akhmatova
AuthorAnna Akhmatova
ISBN0307264246
A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. Before the revolution, Akhmatova...
The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
AuthorIlya Kaminsky
ISBN0061583243
When your thoughts
don’t take you too far
and you are silent
as you tremble
and gaze
at the trellis of your hands.

When the chariot of your imagination
does not lead you into tunnels
lit up with apprehensions
and lightnings
as you remain silent
and...
Poetry: A Pocket Anthology
AuthorR.S. Gwynn
I think it's a pretty good survey of English poetry. All the big names are in here, including Shelley, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman, Poe, Keats, Dickinson, Frost, Bishop, Plath, etc. This collection spans several centuries, from around 1450 (first poem listed) to 2000 (the last poem listed;...
The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
AuthorHayden Carruth
ISBN0553262637
I purchased a copy of this book before leaving for Senegal as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 1974. For two years I lived in a mud hut in a small village on the edge of the Sahara, far from running water, electricity, or anybody who spoke english.

The Voice That Is Great Within Us kept me excellent company...
The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs)
AuthorThe New Yorker
ISBN1400064740
EVERY PAGE OF EVERY ISSUE
ON 8 DVD-ROMS, WITH A COMPANION BOOK OF HIGHLIGHTS.
"A cultural monument, a journalistic gold mine, an essential research tool, an amazing time machine."
What has the "New Yorker" said about Prohibition, Duke Ellington, the Second World War, Bette Davis, boxing,...
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375710760
A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.

Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion...
The Bed Book
AuthorSylvia Plath
ISBN0316712280
Yes, THE Sylvia Plath wrote a picture book for kids, which I now have finally read thanks to Miriam. Sweet, warm watercolor illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully that remind us Plath was a mother who in fact like most mothers read stories to her children. And wrote them.

A bed for fishing, a bed...
Antisemitism: Part One of the Origins of Totalitarianism
AuthorHannah Arendt
ISBN0156078104
Arendt brings out a brief history of anti-Semitism with a special focus on the way it came to be used as a propaganda device by Nazis. There is much in this - like the argument that a wealthy section of society is tolerated by the rest only as long as they serve a function. And to be able to serve a function, power...
The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War
AuthorStewart O'Nan
ISBN0385491182
An extraordinary selection of the finest and best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, from Tim O'Brien to Marvin Gaye, from mainstream bestsellers to radical poetry.

This authoritative and accessible volume includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, photography, and...
The World Must Know: The History Of The Holocaust As Told In The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
AuthorMichael Berenbaum
ISBN0316091340
Don't try to read this all at once. For one thing, it's really long, so that would be a chunk of time.

But mostly, it's heavy. It's literally heavy--hundreds of glossy, full-color and black-and-white photos splash across thick pages, so the book itself weighs something significant. It is also...
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945
AuthorDavid S. Wyman
ISBN1565844157
"Why Auschwitz Was Never Bombed," a chapter from this book, appeared in the May 1978 issue of Commentary and aroused a major controversy in the press here and in Europe. That chapter was typical not only of the stunning revelations that David Wyman makes but also of his meticulous research encompassing...
The Book of Folly
AuthorAnne Sexton
ISBN0395140757
We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

The bomb opens like a shoebox.
And the child?
The child is certainly not yawning.
And the woman?
The woman is bathing her heart.
It has been torn...
Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto
AuthorPaul B. Janeczko
ISBN0763647276
Paul B. Janeczko's stirring collection of poems goes inside the walls of the notorious camp to portray the indomitable spirit of those incarcerated there.

Hitler hailed Terez�n (Theresienstadt) as a haven for artistic Jews, when in reality the Czech concentration camp was little more...
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