Tag: Holocaust

• “Chorus of the Rescued” by Nelly Sachs

  We, the rescued, From whose hollow bones death had begun to whittle his flutes, And on whose sinews he had already stroked his bow— Our bodies continue to lament With their mutilated music.   We, the rescued, The nooses would for our necks still dangle Before us the blue air— Hourglasses still fill with our […]

  Chris Murray

  January 15, 2011

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Images, translated poetry, Translation, War, Women Writers

  Charles Reznikoff, Guardian Books, Holocaust, Paul Celan, Pierre Joris, Shoah, Sylvia Plath