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Unread 02-27-2009, 03:08 AM
Gregory Dowling Gregory Dowling is offline
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Another poem about a child victim of the Holocaust is Hecht's sestina "The Book of Yolek". Here's a link to an anthology that contains it; if you just insert a few words from the opening line ("The dowsed coals fume...") in the Find box you'll be taken to it. There's also a fascinating commentary by Hecht about how he came to write it.
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