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Tables of Contents for Against Forgetting
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
29
49
Acknowledgments
49
4
The Armenian Genocide (1909--1918)
53
10
Siamanto (1878--1915)
55
4
Grief
56
1
The Dance
57
2
Vahan Tekeyan (1878--1945)
59
4
Forgetting
59
1
Prayer on the Threshold of Tomorrow
60
1
Dream
61
1
The Country of Dust
62
1
World War I (1914--1918)
63
32
Edward Thomas (1878--1917)
66
1
The Owl
66
1
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880--1918)
67
4
Shadow
67
1
Post Card
68
1
The Little Car
68
2
Stanzas Against Forgetting
70
1
Gottfried Benn (1886--1967)
71
4
Monologue
71
2
Fragments
73
2
Siegfried Sasson (1886--1967)
75
4
A Working Party
75
1
The Death-Bed
76
2
Repression of War Experience
78
1
Georg Trakl (1887--1914)
79
2
A Romance to Night
79
1
Downfall
80
1
In the East
80
1
Grodek
81
1
Wilfred Owen (1893--1918)
81
3
Dulce et Decorum Est
82
1
Anthem for Doomed Youth
82
1
Exposure
83
1
e.e. cummings (1894--1962)
84
2
(i sing of Olaf glad and big)
85
1
am was. are leaves few this. is these a or
86
1
Robert Graves (1895--1985)
86
2
Recalling War
87
1
Eugenio Montale (1896--1981)
88
3
The Storm
88
1
The Fan
89
1
Personae Separatae
90
1
Day and Night
90
1
Andre Breton (1896--1966)
91
4
More than Suspect
91
1
War
92
3
Revolution and Repression in the Soviet Union (1917--1991)
95
52
Velimir Khlebnikov (1885--1922)
98
3
It has the unassuming face of a burnt-out candle
99
1
Suppose I make a timepiece of humanity
100
1
Anna Akhmatova (1889--1966)
101
8
Requiem
101
8
Boris Pasternak (1890--1960)
109
3
Hamlet
109
1
Fresco Come to Life
110
1
Mary Magdalene (I)
111
1
Victor Serge (Victor Lvovich Kibalchich) (1890--1947)
112
9
The Asphyxiated Man
113
2
Dialectic
115
2
Constellation of Dead Brothers
117
2
Hands
119
2
Osip Mandelstam (1891--1938)
121
3
The Stalin Epigram
122
1
Mounds of human heads are wandering into the distance
123
1
Leningrad
123
1
I was washing outside in the darkness
124
1
Marine Tsvetayeva (1892--1941)
124
5
A white low sun
125
1
from Poems to Czechoslovakia
125
1
You, walking past me
126
1
from the cycle Akhmatova
127
2
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893--1930)
129
6
from At the Top of My Voice
129
6
Past one o'clock
135
1
Daniil Kharms (1905--1942)
135
2
Symphony No. 2
135
1
The Beginning of a Beautiful Day (A Symphony)
136
1
An Event on the Street
137
1
Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936-- )
137
4
Sukhanovo
138
3
Joseph Brodsky (1940-- )
141
4
The Berlin Wall Tune
142
1
To Urania
143
1
Elegy
144
1
Irina Ratushinskaya (1954-- )
145
2
`Try to cover your shivering shoulders'
145
1
`But only not to think'
146
1
The Spanish Civil War (1936--1939)
147
28
Antonio Machado (1875--1939)
150
2
Rainbow at Night
150
1
Coplas
151
1
Today's Meditation
152
1
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898--1936)
152
5
Little Infinite Poem
153
1
Rundown Church
154
1
The Quarrel
155
1
Casida of Sobbing
156
1
Rafael Alberti (1902-- )
157
3
The Warlike Angels
157
1
Punishments
158
1
The Angels of the Ruins
159
1
W. H. Auden (1907--1973)
160
7
Spain 1937
161
3
September 1, 1939
164
2
Epitaph on a Tyrant
166
1
Miguel Hernandez (1910--1942)
167
8
I go on in the dark, lit from within
167
1
War
168
1
Waltz Poem of Those in Love and Inseparable Forever
168
1
July 18, 1936-July 18, 1938
169
1
Tomb of the Imagination
170
1
Lullaby of the Onion
170
5
World War II (1939--1945)
175
182
Gertrude Stein (1874--1946)
179
2
Scenes from the Door
179
2
Max Jacob (1876--1944)
181
2
War
182
1
In Search of the Traitor
182
1
Moon Poem
182
1
The Horrible Today
183
1
Ezra Pound (1885--1972)
183
5
from Pisan Canto LXXIV
183
5
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886--1961)
188
6
from The Walls Do Not Fall
188
6
Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Leger Leger) (1887--1975)
194
3
from Exile
194
3
Yvan Goll (1891--1950)
197
3
Your Sleep
197
1
The Last River
198
1
Lackawanna Elegy
198
2
Paul Eluard (1895--1952)
200
6
November 1936
200
1
Meetings
201
2
Nazi Song
203
1
Dawn Dissolves the Monsters
203
1
To Her of Whom They Dream
204
2
Tristan Tzara (Sami Rosenstock) (1896--1963)
206
2
Waking
206
1
For Robert Desnos
206
2
Philippe Soupault (1897--1990)
208
3
Poems from Saint Pelagia Prison
208
1
One o'Clock
209
1
Condemned
210
1
You Who Sleep
210
1
Bertolt Brecht (1898--1956)
211
8
The God of War
212
1
When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling Rain
212
1
From a German War Primer
213
3
To Those Born Later
216
2
The World's One Hope
218
1
Benjamin Peret (1899--1959)
219
3
Hymn of the Patriotic War Veterans
220
1
Nungesser und Coli Sind Verreckt
221
1
Francis Ponge (1899--1988)
222
8
The Sun as a Spinning Top (I)
222
1
The Silent World Is Our Only Homeland
223
3
The Water of Tears
226
1
The Prairie
227
3
Robert Desnos (1900--1945)
230
8
Ars Poetica
231
2
The Night Watchman of Pont-au-Change
233
4
Letter to Youki
237
1
Jacques Prevert (1900--1977)
238
4
Song in the Blood
238
2
Barbara
240
2
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901--1968)
242
3
19 January 1944
242
1
Man of My Time
243
1
To the Fifteen of Piazzale Loreto
243
1
Auschwitz
244
1
Stanley Kunitz (1905-- )
245
4
Father and Son
245
1
Night Letter
246
2
The Last Picnic
248
1
Louis MacNeice (1907--1963)
249
4
Prayer Before Birth
249
1
Brother Fire
250
1
Troll's Courtship
251
2
Rene Char (1907--1988)
253
3
Argument
253
1
Unbending Prayer
254
1
Man flees suffocation
254
1
Leaves of Hypnos No. 128
254
2
Disdained Apparitions
256
1
Gunter Eich (1907--1972)
256
7
Inventory
257
1
Old Postcards
258
2
Geometrical Place
260
2
Seminar for Backward Pupils
262
1
Cesare Pavese (1908--1950)
263
2
August Moon
263
1
Words from Confinement
264
1
George Oppen (1908--1984)
265
9
Route
266
8
Anna Swir (Anna Swirszczynska) (1909--1984)
274
3
I Am Afraid of Fire
274
1
A Conversation Through the Door
275
1
We Survived Them
276
1
White Wedding Slippers
276
1
Stephen Spender (1909-- )
277
4
Ultima Ratio Regum
277
1
Air Raid Across the Bay at Plymouth
278
1
Rejoice in the Abyss
279
1
Epilogue to a Human Drama
280
1
Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)
281
3
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
281
1
Ceremony after a Fire Raid
282
2
Robert Lowell (1917--1977)
284
2
Memories of West Street and Lepke
284
2
Howard Nemerov (1920--1991)
286
2
Night Operations, Coastal Command RAF
286
1
Models
287
1
Ultima Ratio Reagan
288
1
Erich Fried (1921--1988)
288
5
One Kind of Freedom Speaks
289
1
Exile
289
1
My Girlfriends
290
1
What Things Are Called
291
2
Janos Pilinszky (1921--1981)
293
3
Harbach 1944
293
1
Passion of Ravensbruck
294
1
On the Wall of a KZ-Lager
295
1
Frankfurt 1945
295
1
Ilse Aichinger (1921-- )
296
2
Glimpse from the Past
297
1
In Which Names
297
1
Enumeration
298
1
Louis Simpson (1923-- )
298
26
The Runner
298
26
Richard Hugo (1923--1982)
324
3
Napoli Again
324
1
A View from Cortona
325
1
The Yards of Sarajavo
326
1
Anthony Hecht (1923-- )
327
2
More Light! More Light!
327
1
It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It.
328
1
Denise Levertov (1923-- )
329
4
Christmas 1944
330
1
Fragrance of Life, Odor of Death
331
1
In Thai Binh (Peace) Province
331
1
Weeping Woman
332
1
Tamura Ryuichi (1923-- )
333
7
My Imperialism
333
2
October Poem
335
1
Standing Coffin
336
2
Spiral Cliff
338
2
Alan Dugan (1923-- )
340
3
Memorial Service for the Invasion Beach Where the Vacation in the Flesh Is Over
340
1
On an East Wind from the Wars
341
1
Portrait from the Infantry
342
1
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926--1973)
343
2
Early Noon
343
1
In the Storm of Roses
344
1
A Kind of Loss
345
1
Gunter Grass (1927-- )
345
4
Music for Brass
346
1
In the Egg
347
1
Saturn
348
1
Charles Simic (1938-- )
349
8
Butcher Shop
350
1
The Lesson
350
2
Begotten of the Spleen
352
1
Prodigy
353
1
Toy Factory
354
3
The Holocaust, The Shoah (1933--1945)
357
48
Nelly Sachs (1891--1970)
361
3
O the Chimneys
361
1
O Sister
362
1
But Look
363
1
You
364
1
Gertrud Kolmar (1894--1943)
364
4
Judith
365
1
The Sacrifice
366
2
Miklos Radnoti (1909--1944)
368
5
Forced March
369
1
Letter to My Wife
369
2
Peace, Horror
371
1
Picture Postcards
371
1
Seventh Eclogue
372
1
Primo Levi (1919--1987)
373
4
Buna
374
1
Shema
375
1
For Adolf Eichmann
375
1
Annunciation
376
1
Voices
377
1
Jiri Orten (1919--1941)
377
2
Whispered
378
1
The Last Poem
379
1
Paul Celan (1920--1970)
379
4
Night Ray
380
1
Death Fugue
380
2
There Was Earth Inside Them
382
1
I Hear That the Axe Has Flowered
382
1
A Leaf
383
1
Tadeusz Borowski (1922--1951)
383
2
The Sun of Auschwitz
383
1
Two Countries
384
1
Project: Flag
385
1
Dan Pagis (1930--1986)
385
3
Autobiography
385
1
A Lesson in Observation
386
1
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car
387
1
Draft of a Reparations Agreement
387
1
Edith Bruck (1932-- )
388
3
Childhood
388
1
Pretty Soon
389
1
Equality, Father
389
2
Irena Klepfisz (1941-- )
391
14
Bashert
391
14
Repression In Eastern And Central Europe (1945--1991)
405
82
Tudor Arghenzi (1880--1967)
408
2
Testament
408
2
Psalm
410
1
Aleksander Wat (1900--1967)
410
3
Before Breughel the Elder
411
1
To Be a Mouse
412
1
From Persian Parables
412
1
Imagerie d'Epinal
413
1
Vitezslav Nezval (1900--1958)
413
6
Walker in Prague
414
2
The Lilac by the Museum on St. Wenceslas Square
416
1
Prague in the Midday Sun
416
2
Moon over Prague
418
1
Jaroslav Seifert (1901--1986)
419
2
The Candlestick
419
1
Never Again
420
1
Vladimir Holan (1905--1980)
421
5
In the Yard of the Policlinic
422
2
Children at Christmas in 1945
424
1
To the Enemies
424
2
Resurrection
426
1
Peter Huchel (1903--1981)
426
3
Landscape Beyond Warsaw
427
1
Roads
427
1
The Garden of Theophrastus
428
1
Psalm
429
1
Attila Jozsef (1905--1937)
429
5
Attila Jozsef
430
1
To Sit, to Stand, to Kill, to Die
431
1
The Seventh
432
1
Freight Trains
433
1
Ondra Lysohorsky (1905--1989)
434
3
22.6.1941
435
1
At a Sunlit Window
435
1
Ballad of Jan Palach, Student and Heretic
436
1
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-- )
437
6
Dedication
437
1
A Task
438
1
Child of Europe
439
3
On Angels
442
1
Johannes Bobrowski (1917--1965)
443
5
Kaunas 1941
443
2
Pruzzian Elegy
445
1
Latvian Songs
446
1
Elderblossom
447
1
Tadeusz Rozewicz (1921-- )
448
3
Massacre of the Boys
448
1
Pigtail
449
1
What Happens
449
1
Questions about Poetry since Auschwitz
450
1
Ion Caraion (1923--1986)
451
4
Song from the Occupation Time
452
1
Remember
453
1
The Enveloping Echo
453
1
Tomorrow the Past Comes
454
1
Ultimate Argument
454
1
Wislawa Szymborska (1923-- )
455
5
The Terrorist, He Watches
455
1
Still
456
1
Children of the Epoch
457
1
Any Case
458
1
Hunger Camp at Jaslo
459
1
Once we knew the world well
460
1
Zbigniew Herbert (1924-- )
460
6
What I Saw
461
1
Report from the Besieged City
462
2
Painter
464
1
The Wall
464
1
The Trial
464
2
Nina Cassian (1924-- )
466
1
Temptation
466
1
Vowel
467
1
Horst Bienek (1930-- )
467
6
Vorkuta
467
1
Exodus
468
1
Resistance
469
3
Our Ashes
472
1
Sarah Kirsch (1935-- )
473
4
Legend of Lilja
474
2
Pictures
476
1
Mail
477
1
Gojko Djogo (1940-- )
477
2
The National Hero
477
1
The Wooden Handle
478
1
The Black Sheep
479
1
Stanislaw Baranczak (1946-- )
479
3
If China
480
1
December 14, 1979: A Poetry Reading
480
1
February 8, 1980: And No One Has Warned Me
481
1
Tomasz Jastrun (1950-- )
482
2
The Seed
482
1
The Polish Knot
483
1
Scrap
483
1
Hat
484
1
Jan Polkowski (1953-- )
484
3
The world is only air
484
1
I Don't Know That Man
485
1
Noli Me Tangere
485
2
War And Dictatorship In The Mediterranean (1900--1991)
487
34
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863--1933)
490
2
Waiting for the Barbarians
490
1
The City
491
1
George Seferis (1900--1971)
492
6
A Word for Summer
492
2
The Last Day
494
1
Our Sun
495
1
Last Stop
495
3
Nazim Hikmet (1902--1963)
498
11
Letters from a Man in Solitary
498
3
Since I Was Thrown Inside
501
3
Things I Didn't Know I Loved
504
3
The Evening Walk
507
2
Yannis Ritsos (1909-- )
509
4
Unanswered
509
1
Underneath Oblivion
510
1
Audible and Inaudible
510
1
Afternoon
510
1
The Missing
511
1
After the Defeat
512
1
Not Even Mythology
513
1
Odysseas Elytis (1911--1991)
513
8
Anniversary
513
2
The March toward the Front
515
2
The Autopsy
517
1
The Sleep of the Brave
518
3
The Indo-Pakistani Wars (1947--1972)
521
8
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911--1984)
523
6
Once Again the Mind
524
1
No Sign of Blood
524
1
The Tyrant
525
1
A Prison Daybreak
526
3
War In The Middle East (1948--1991)
529
38
Edmond Jabes (1912--1991)
532
4
The Beginning of the Book
533
1
The Book
533
1
The Desert
534
1
Notebook, II
535
1
The Desert, II
535
1
Fadwa Tuquan (1917-- )
536
6
Face Lost in the Wilderness
537
2
After Twenty Years
539
1
I Won't Sell His Love
539
1
Behind Bars, Sel
540
1
Song of Becoming
541
1
Abba Kovner (1918--1987)
542
6
What's Not in the Heart
543
1
It's Late
544
1
Potato Pie
545
3
To Myself
548
1
Yehuda Amichai (1924-- )
548
4
Ibn Gabirol
549
1
Like Our Bodies' Imprint
549
1
God Has Pity on Kindergarten Children
550
1
Children
550
1
Two Songs of Peace
550
1
If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
551
1
Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id) (1930-- )
552
10
The New Noah
553
1
Elegy for the Time at Hand
554
7
A Mirror for the Twentieth Century
561
1
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-- )
562
5
Earth Poem
562
1
We Travel Like Other People
563
1
Prison
564
1
Psalm 2
564
3
Repression And Revolution In Latin America (1900--1991)
567
54
Cesar Vallejo (1892--1937)
570
3
The Black Riders
571
1
The Rollcall of Bones
571
1
Have You Anything to Say in Your Defense?
572
1
Pablo Neruda (1904--1973)
573
6
The Dictators
574
1
America, I Do Not Call Your Name Without Hope
574
1
Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas
575
3
They Receive Instructions Against Chile
578
1
Nicanor Parra (1914-- )
579
8
Warnings
579
1
Inflation
579
1
Letters from the Poet Who Sleeps in a Chair
580
4
Sentences
584
1
Modern Times
584
1
Manifesto
585
2
Claribel Alegria (1924-- )
587
5
We Were Three
588
1
From the Bridge
589
3
Angel Cuadra (1931-- )
592
3
In Brief
593
1
Brief Letter to Donald Walsh (in memoriam)
594
1
Heberto Padilla (1932-- )
595
9
In Trying Times
596
1
Nuclear Umbrella
597
5
History
602
1
Sometimes I plunge into the ocean
602
1
Song of the Juggler
603
1
Roque Dalton (1935--1975)
604
2
My Neighbor
604
1
Love Poem
605
1
Otto Rene Castillo (1936--1967)
606
7
Before the Scales, Tomorrow
606
1
Apolitical Intellectuals
607
2
Distances
609
4
Ariel Dorfman (1942-- )
613
4
I Just Missed the Bus and I'll Be Late for Work
613
1
Last Waltz in Santiago
614
1
Vocabulary
615
2
Teresa de Jesus
617
4
Proverbs
617
1
Curfew
618
1
The Flag of Chile
619
2
The Struggle For Civil Rights And Civil Liberties In The United States (1900--1991)
621
56
Langston Hughes (1902--1967)
625
6
Letter to the Academy
625
1
Madrid---1937
626
2
Let America Be America Again
628
3
Richard Wright (1908--1960)
631
4
I Have Seen Black Hands
631
2
Between the World and Me
633
2
Muriel Rukeyser (1913--1980)
635
9
Breaking Open
635
9
Thomas McGrath (1916--1990)
644
10
Nocturne Militaire
645
1
Blues for Warren
646
6
Go Ask the Dead
652
1
Fresco: Departure for an Imperialist War
653
1
The End of the World
654
1
Daniel Berrigan (1921-- )
654
2
My Name
655
1
Prayer
655
1
Rehabilitative Report: We Can Still Laugh
656
1
Galway Kinnell (1927-- )
656
4
Another Night in the Ruins
657
1
Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
658
2
Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934-- )
660
3
Incident
660
1
Balboa, the Entertainer
661
1
Political Poem
662
1
Quincy Troupe (1943-- )
663
4
Poem for My Father
663
2
Boomerang: A Blatantly Political Poem
665
2
Ray A. Young Bear (1950-- )
667
5
The Song Taught to Joseph
667
1
From the Spotted Night
668
1
A Drive to Lone Ranger
669
3
Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952-- )
672
5
Immigrants in Our Own Land
672
2
Like an Animal
674
1
How We Carry Ourselves
675
1
Oppression
676
1
War In Korea And Vietnam (1945--1979)
677
36
Etheridge Knight (1931--1991)
681
4
The Idea of Ancestry
681
1
A Poem for Myself
682
1
To Make a Poem in Prison
683
1
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
684
1
Walter McDonald (1934-- )
685
3
The Children of Saigon
685
1
Christmas Bells, Saigon
686
1
The Last Still Days in a Bunker
687
1
John Balaban (1943-- )
688
3
The Guard at the Binh Thuy Bridge
688
1
News Update
689
1
For the Missing in Action
690
1
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-- )
691
3
Starlight Scope Myopia
691
1
After the Fall of Saigon
692
1
Boat People
693
1
George Evans (1948-- )
694
9
Revelation in the Mother Lode
695
1
Eye Blade
696
7
Bruce Weigl (1949-- )
703
5
Burning Shit at An Khe
703
2
The Way of Tet
705
1
The Last Lie
706
1
Her Life Runs Like a Red Silk Flag
706
2
James Fenton (1949-- )
708
5
Cambodia
708
1
Dead Soldiers
708
2
Lines for Translation into Any Language
710
3
Repression in Africa and the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa (1900--1991)
713
38
Es'kia Mphahlele (1919-- )
716
4
A Poem
717
1
Homeward Bound
718
2
Dennis Brutus (1924-- )
720
4
On the Island
720
1
from Poems About Prison
721
2
Under House Arrest
723
1
Prayer
723
1
Sipho Sepamla (1932-- )
724
7
The Odyssey
724
2
Measure for Measure
726
1
Silence: 2
727
1
I Remember Sharpeville
728
2
The Law That Says
730
1
Wole Soyinka (1934-- )
731
4
I Think It Rains
731
1
Harvest of Hate
732
1
Massacre, October'66
733
1
Civilian and Soldier
734
1
Breyten Breytenbach (1939-- )
735
9
Dar es-Salaam: Harbour of Peace
735
2
Exile, Representative
737
1
Journey
738
4
First Prayer for the Hottentotsgod
742
1
The Struggle for the Taal
742
2
Jack Mapanje (1944-- )
744
2
After Wiriyamu Village Massacre by Portuguese
744
1
On His Royal Blindness Paramount Chief Kwangala
745
1
On Being Asked to Write a Poem for 1979
746
1
Jeremy Cronin (1949-- )
746
5
The Naval Base (Part III)
746
1
Motho Ke Motho Ka Batho Babang (A Person Is a Person Because of Other People)
747
1
Group Photo from Pretoria Local on the Occasion of a Fourth Anniversary (Never Taken)
748
3
Revolutions and the Struggle for Democracy in China (1911--1991)
751
12
Bei Dao (1949-- )
754
6
The Answer
754
1
Stretch out your hands to me
755
1
An End or a Beginning
756
2
Resume
758
1
Accomplices
759
1
Duoduo (1951-- )
760
3
from Thoughts and Recollections
760
1
Wishful Thinking Is the Master of Reality
761
1
At Parting
761
1
Untitled
761
1
Looking Out from Death
762
1
Selected Bibliography
763
22
Permissions
785
14
Index
799