Blood to remember : American poets on the Holocaust / edited by Charles Ades Fishman.

Preface to the Revised Second Edition
Bicycles Cousins, [Would it have been possible to take in the Jews] / Marjorie Agosin
from Inside Dachau / Sherman Alexie
"Hitler Builds a City for the Jews", Mr. Panitz, Night Travel, Voices in My Skin, Voyage Home / Karen Alkalay-Gut
David-Horodok, Pebbles from Auschwitz, Postcard from Poland / Michael Alpiner
Verboten / John Amen
Pinochle Day / Frieda Arkin
Morning After a Fight, He Says / Brett Axel
The Suffering Cuts Both Ways / David B. Axelrod
We, the Tefillin of Once-Was Europe / Yakov Azriel
Kristallnacht, 1991 / Crystal Bacon
Lament for the Gypsies / Julius Balbin
The Mothertree / Stanley H. Barkan
Parable of the Jew Without a Name / Tony Barnstone
Miklos Radnoti, The Rose of Blue Flesh / Willis Barnstone
Ineradicable History and Geography / Judith Barrington
The Extermination of the Jews, Oft-Seen Photo from the Liberation of Auschwitz / Marvin Bell.

Maschlacki / Lora J. Berg
Juliek's Violin / Michael Blumenthal
Pitchipoi / George Bogin
Night Journey to Poland, The Shoah, Triumph of the Dead, Verdi's Requiem Played and Sung by Jews in Terezin Concentration Camp/Summer, 1944 / Emily Borenstein
The Feather at Breendonck, The Pallor of Survival, from Seven Fragments on Hearing a Hammer Pounding / Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Gardens of Smoke / Allen Brafman
The Hindenburg from This Way to the Gas / Rivkah Van K. Brock
Learning the ABC's in Wartime Germany, Phoenixes, Schindlerjuden, Speaking for Survivors, Yom Kippur for a Survivor / Louis Daniel Brodsky
Mengele / Michael Dennis Browne
Pfennig Postcard, Wrong Address / Michael R. Burch
At the Jewish Museum / Olga Cabral
To Gisi Fleischmann / Joan Campion
Auschwitz, All Hallows, Juliek's Violin, Life Indestructible, Poem for the Artists of the Holocaust, The Postcard of Sophie Scholl / Cyrus Cassells
The Archivist, Personal to Kaplan / Judith Chalmer
The Gift / John Ciardi.

Swastika / David Citino
From the Ardeatine Caves / Vince Clemente
And the Snow Kept Falling, Habry, I Remember Coming into Warsaw, a Child / Helen Degen Cohen (Halina Degenfisz)
The Gardens / David Curzon
Dachau Revisited 1971 / Ruth Daigon
There Were Those / Susan Dambroff
Soup / Enid Dame
For Miklos Radnoti: 1909-1944 / Kate Daniels
Yellow Starred / Sister Mary Philip De Camara
School of Music / Theodore Deppe
Name Tag / Norita Dittberner-Jax
Three Postage Stamps / Sharon Dolin
On Hearing a String Quartet Written by Prisoners of Theresienstadt / Wendy Drexler
Istanbul 1967, Memories / Shoshana Dubman
Shulamith Rereads The Shawl, Shulamith, in White, Shulamith Writes Fuck You / Jehanne Dubrow
Vilna 1938 / Shelley Ehrlich
Ad / Kenneth Fearing
"Grandfather" in Winter / Frederick Feirstein
from Family History, The Pripet Marshes / Irving Feldman
Survivor / Ruth Feldman
Eastern Europe After the War, A Jawbone from the Reich, The Silence / Charles Ades Fishman
I Did Not Know, but I Remember / Tamara Fishman
Icon, Shipment to Maidanek, Yizkor / Ephim Fogel
from The Angel of History, from The Notebook of Uprising / Carolyn Forche
God's Death / Florence W. Freed
Quiet Desperation / Mike Frenkel
Skin / Sari Friedman
At the Holocaust Museum, The Waiting Room / Alice Friman
The Tailor / Patricia Garfinkel.

For Nelly Sachs / Kinereth Gensler
from The Akiva poems, Last Night's Doubleheader / David Gershator
Dead Men Don't Praise God, I'll Find My Self-Belief, Millions of Dead, Nightsong, Without Jews / Jacob Glatstein (Yankev Glatshteyn)
Our Father / Barbara Goldberg
Rotterdam
1946 / Thomas A. Goldman
Prosciowiece, 1942, There Is No Time, Those Who Remain / Rachel Goldstein
The Martyrs Are Calling / Ber Green
How Early Fall Came This Year, Hunger in the Labor Camps, Night in the Labor Camp, What the War Taught My Mother / John Z. Guzlowski
The Book of Lamentations, Rachel at the Well, Sanctification / Leo Haber
Being Seemingly Unscathed, Love in a Death Camp / Israel I. Halpern
Earrings, Requiem / Annette Bialik Harchik
Day of Remembrance, In Memory of Paul Celan / Geoffrey Hartman
"It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It.", "More Light! More Light!" / Anthony Hecht
Chant for All the People on Earth / Leslie Woolf Hedley
The Blue Parakeet, Harry Lenga, The Wheel / Julie N. Heifetz
A Jew's Love for Language, The Yiddish I Know / Chaia Heller
Bandelette de Torah, from Bialystok Stanzas / Michael Heller
Fried Noodles Topped with Raisins Cinnamon and Vanilla Cream, In Your Lager Dream, Jedwabne, Marked, Shot / Stephen Herz
Oma / Walter Hess
The Candle, The Legend of the Shoah, Riddle, The Secret, Simple Truths / William Heyen
Amchu, Yom HaShoah in Florida / Rick Hilles
Paul Celan: A Grave and Mysterious Sentence / Edward Hirsch
The Chosen / Jean Hollander
And There Were Pits, Too Weak to Stand, They Lay, You Know, the Funny Thing Is / Barbara Helfgott Hyett.

Keeping the Ground / Thea Iberall
1985
In a Small American Town / Judith Irwin
In a Holocaust Memorial Garden / Dan Jaffe
The Third Generation / Katherine Janowitz
Shoes / Sheila Golburgh Johnson
Passover at Auschwitz / Laurence Josephs
After a While, at Theresienstadt, Mezuzah, To My Poem of Hope, Survivor / Marilyn Kallet
My Holocaust / Rodger Kamenetz
Medium / Marc Kaminsky
Bramble, Identifications / Peretz Kaminsky
Kol Nidre / Rosa Felsenburg Kaplan
Line-Up, My Face Before, The Return / Dori Katz
from Liberation Recalled / Eliot Katz
My Mother Doesn't Know Who Allen Ginsberg Is, Who Are We? / Alan Kaufman
from Kaddish / Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
The Shower / Tsipi Keller
Yahrzeit / Miriam Kessler
Burial, The Spells of Earth / Steven Klepetar
from Bashert, Solitary Acts / Irena Klepfisz
Halloween and a Ghost / Ruth Kluger
After the Holocaust, No Poetry, Onkel Fritz Is Sitting / David Koenig.

The Little Boy with His Hands Up, Noemi, Passover Night 1942, You, Who Did Not Survive / Yala Korwin
Westminster Synagogue, Zudioska / Aaron Kramer
Tannenbaum, 1940, The Name on the Wall, A Freight Yard in Wurzburg, Meditation in the Israelite Cemetery, Wurzburg / Norbert Krapf
Leaving a Country Behind / Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda
The Amsterdam Poem / Maxine Kumin
A Million Pairs of Shoes / Aaron Kurtz
Dan's Shoe Repair / Christine Lahey
Babi Yar / Carole Glasser Langille
How It Happened, This, My Incarnation / Alyssa A. Lappen
from During the Eichmann Trial / Denise Levertov
On a Drawing by Flavio, The Survivor / Philip Levine
A Few More Things About the Holocaust / Leatrice H. Lifshitz
Auschwitz Reportaz / Alan Lupack
There Is One Synagogue Extant in Kiev / Yaacov Luria
Opa the Watchmaker / Arlene Maass
from Holocaust Archives I, from Holocaust Archives II / Channah Magori
Aunt Betty / Sandra Cohen Margulius
For the Children / David McKain
Terezin / Robert Mezey
The Jews That We are, from Recital / Richard Michelson
Mame-Loshen, Yiddish, 1945 / Bernard S. Mikofsky
Not Dachau / Aaron Miller.

Tsena Tsena, Yiddish / Marilyn Mohr
Photograph of Liberated Prisoner, Dachau, 1945, Yellow Star / David Moolten
The December Dress, The Teaspoon, At the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Sarah Traister Moskovitz
Ghetto Theater, Vilnius, 1941, A Visit to Kaunas / Stanley Moss
Lullaby, The Tomatoes / Teresa Moszkowicz-Syrop
The Balcony, The Last Visa for Palestine, On the Wings of the Wind / Elaine Mott
Hill Where the Lord Hides, I Wake from a Dream of Killing Hitler / Mark Nepo
In the Heaven of Night, A Shade of Night, When Israel Went Forth / Amos Neufeld
Reforger / Miriam Offenberg
The Archivist, Homeland / Lois E. Olena
Ponar, Villanelle from a Sentence in a Poet's Brief Biography / Jacqueline Osherow
The Eighth and the Thirteenth, Poem Beginning with a Line by Fitzgerald/Hemingway / Alicia Ostriker
Auschwitz: Oswiecim / Christina Pacosz
Landscape near Dachau, Rachel (ra'chal), a Ewe, Response / Linda Pastan.

Like Butterflies / Mark Pawlak
Thoughts Under the Giant Sequoia, Yom Hazikaron / Edmund Pennant
Perhaps You Wish to Learn Another Language, Words over the Entranceway to Hell / Louis Phillips
Black Mountain, Growing up Haunted, The Housing Project at Drancy / Marge Piercy
Somewhere in Poland ... Survivor's Lament / Heidemarie Pilc
Farewell to Europe, Miserere, A Poem for Anton Schmidt, The Ascensions / William Pillin
The Survivor / John C. Pine
Ash Wednesday / Karl A. Plank
I Am Babi Yar / Ginger Porter
Heinz Rosenberg on the Platform, Toska / Evelyn Posamentier
from Darkling, from Dislocations / Anna Rabinowitz
Houses, A Photograph from 1935, A Song for Herr Hitler, Visitors from America / David Ray
And Nothing Moved / Richard C. Raymond
Sweet Savour / Barbara Reisner
Korczak and the Orphans, The Six Million / Naomi Replansky
U.S. Army Holds Dance for Camp Survivors. Germany, 1945 / Lisa Ress
After Generations After / Elaine Reuben
from Massacres, from Mass Graves, from Inscriptions: 1944-1956 / Charles Reznikoff
After Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Liliane Richman
Photograph of Bergen-Belsen, 1945 / Michael D. Riley
Auschwitz / Nicholas Rinaldi
In Der Nacht (In the Night) / Curtis Robbins
Pastoral for the Twenty-first Century / William Pitt Root.

The Lanternman / Marina Roscher
At Dachau with a German Lover / Jennifer Rose
After That Time, Ritual at Auschwitz / Harriet Susskind Rosenblum
Birkenau Barracks, The Second Generation, Sosnowiec Visited, Yad Vashem Museum Opening, March 15, 2005 / Menachem Z. Rosensaft
Almost Beautiful, Anything Chocolate, Homework, My Father's Souvenirs / Elizabeth Rosner
Dibbukim (Dibbiks), Dos Oysledikn (The Emptying), In the Dark Word, Khurbn, The Other Secret in the Trail of Money, from Peroration for a Lost Town / Jerome Rothenberg
The Nazi in the Dock, at Sixty / Larry Rubin
Easy Living in Terezin / Mark Rudman
The Way to Be Haunted / Biff Russ
A Scene from Shoah / Luada Sandler
Aspen Oktoberfest / Reg Saner
from The Invocation to Kali / May Sarton
"A lonely man in his greatness" / Rebecca Seiferle
For Victims / David Shapiro
Tattoo / Gregg Shapiro
Ditty, Natural History / Harvey Shapiro
In the Absence of Yellow, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Shoshana, Unanswerable Questions / Reva Sharon.

Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen / Enid Shomer
Haggadah / Joan I. Siegel
Letter to Vienna from Paris, 1942 / Maurya Simon
The Bird, A Story about Chicken Soup / Louis Simpson
from Lithuania / Myra Sklarew
Hollow Cost / Joan Jobe Smith
"City Children at a Summer Camp. Slonim, 1936", "Selma ... a Pot of Soup ... a Bottle of Milk. Lodz, 1938" / Kirtland Snyder
Another Book on the Holocaust / J.R. Solonche
from Mengele Shitting, Meyer Tsits and the Children, The Property of the World, What They Saw / Jason Sommer
Memories of December / Gizela Spunberg
November Rain, Visit to the Fatherland / Hans Jorg Stahlschmidt
The Maiden Aunts / Jan Steckel
The Three / Martin Steingesser
Adler, Soap / Gerald Stern
Yom Kippur / Bradley R. Strahan
Who Knows One? / Michael Strassfeld
Erasing the Blue Numbers, Her Velocity Had Been Taken, Theresienstadt, What a Waste of World / Lynn Strongin
Because / Yerra Sugarman
... And the Earth Rebelled / Yuri Suhl
Dark Whispers, The Line, In Ravensbruck / Zahava Z. Sweet.

The Niemand Reckoning / Marie Syrkin
Another Holocaust Poem, For Our Dead, My Mother As Superhero / Marilynn Talal
A Pure Breath, Warsaw Epidemic / Sean M. Teaford
The Jewish Quarter in Budapest, What We Pass On, With the Survivors, The Wounds / Philip Terman
1939 / Elaine Terranova
Train to Oswiecim / Susan Terris
Daughter of Survivors / Hilary Tham
Gaby at the U.N. Observation Post / Susan Tichy
Auschwitz #1, Auschwitz #6 / Alfred Van Loen
from Midsummer '81 / Derek Walcott
An Apple for Wolfgang Granjonca / George Wallace
Dachau Moon / Michael Waters
Marrowbones, Speak to the Children, Survivor / Florence Weinberger
The Late Train / Theodore Weiss
The Death Ship, Maria Olt / Ruth Whitman
Spit / C.K. Williams
Hating Shakespeare, Math Test / Barbara Wind
Sanity / Betty Wisoff
The Drapers: A History Lesson / Kenneth Wolman
After Forty Years, KZ / Carolyne Wright
I Remember
Undarkened Window
The God Hid His Face / Rajzel Zychlinsky.