The first comprehensive selection of an important American proletarian poet who was passionately engaged in the major issues of his time, 1930s-1990s This is the collected work of a major, versatile American poet passionately engaged with everything from the Holocaust and the Spanish Civil War to his love for New York City and his wife. The editors argue that his long poem sequence, Denmark Vesey, stands as the most ambitious poem about African American history ever written by a white American. Wicked Times includes previously unpublished poems and the first detailed account of Kramer's life,...
The first comprehensive selection of an important American proletarian poet who was passionately engaged in the major issues of his time, 1930s-1990s ...
Kramer presents the horror of the genocide and the spirit of those who resisted in this collection of poems. Placing each group in historic and literary context with introductory essays, the poets - originally writing in Yiddish - speak from the ghettos, way-stations, and the death camps.
Kramer presents the horror of the genocide and the spirit of those who resisted in this collection of poems. Placing each group in historic and litera...