{"product_id":"the-last-lullaby-poetry-from-the-holocaust-9780815605799","title":"The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Lullaby\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of Araon Kramer's fifty-year devotion to translating the poetry of the Holocaust. The full horror of the genocide and the sublime of those who resisted are given voice on these pages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlacing each group in its historic and literary context with comprehensive introductory essays, Professor Kramer presents works mostly unavailable in English--until now. For the very first time, readers can become familiar with poets who experienced the horrors of the ghettos and the death camps and survived: Soviet poets; American poets who were forever transformed by the Holocaust. Kramer also introduces the 1944 Terezin opera \u003ci\u003eDer Kaiser von Atlantis\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Lullaby\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the richness of a half-annihilated language that, in the pain of its survivors, was made more beautiful than ever before. Unlike most other translators, Kramer insists on maintaining the music of the original Yiddish, the often \"folkish\" cadence and rhyme that, he believes, are a precious part of these poems' legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAraon Kramer\u003c\/b\u003e was a leading resistance poet throughout the McCarthy era, with such texts for music as \u003ci\u003eDenmark Vesey\u003c\/i\u003e and such volumes as \u003ci\u003eRoll the Forbidden Drums!\u003c\/i\u003e Professor of English at Dowling College since 1961, and founding coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWest Hills Review: A Whitman Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, he produced such scholarly works as \u003ci\u003eThe Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(1962) and \u003ci\u003eMelville's Poetry: Toward the Enlarged Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (1972). \u003cbr\u003eIn 1989, 370 of Dr. Kramer's translations from the work of 135 Yiddish poets appeared in a widely praised anthology, \u003ci\u003eA Century of Yiddish Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, which he also edited. Professor Kramer has written his own books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eIndigo and Other Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(1991). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaul Lishinsky\u003c\/b\u003e has exhibited his works extensively, including shows in Libon, New York, Denver, and Connecticut. he has also published collections of both his drawings and poems.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544101064978,"sku":"9780815605799","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3713139d-5834-40ff-8070-6f99bd098e81.jpg?v=1731520664","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-lullaby-poetry-from-the-holocaust-9780815605799","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}