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Poems From Buchenwald Illuminate a Living Hellnew
Presented here in more than 50 bone-shaking adaptations by poet Fanny Howe, the devastating early works by sisters Henia and Ilona Karmel, survivors of the German concentration camp Buchenwald, are so harrowing I could read only a few at a time.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
10-31-2007 |
Poetry
Peter Kuper Has Self-Aware Flashbacksnew
With his unnervingly honest new graphic novel, Stop Forgetting to Remember, New York–based master illustrator Kuper turns in a devastating rendering of his city as it passes the turn of the century — and of a Cheshire cartoonist and his past adolescent meanderings.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ari Messer |
09-12-2007 |
Fiction