Collected poems / Primo Levi ; translated by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: engita Publication details: London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1988.Description: xiii, 78 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0571152554 :
  • 0571152562 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Primo Levi : collected poems
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 851/.914 19
LOC classification:
  • PQ 4872.E8 A24 1988
Online resources:
Contents:
Shemà : Crescenzago -- Buna -- Singing -- 25 February 1944 -- The crow's song -- Shemà -- Reveille -- Monday -- Another Monday -- After R. M. Rilke -- Ostjuden -- Sunset at Fossoli -- 11 February 1946 -- The glacier -- The witch -- Avigliana -- Waiting -- Epitaph -- The crow's song II -- There were a hundred -- For Adolf Eichmann -- Landing -- Lilith -- In the beginning -- Via Cigna -- The black stars -- Leavetaking --
At an uncertain hour : Pliny -- The girl-child of Pompei -- Huayna Capac -- The gulls of Settimo -- Annunciation -- Toward the valley -- Wooden heart -- The first atlas -- 12 July 1980 -- Dark band -- Autobiography -- Voices -- Unfinished business -- Partisan -- Arachne -- 2000 -- Passover -- Laid up -- Old mole -- A bridge -- The work -- A mouse -- Nachtwache -- Agave -- Pearl oyster -- The snail -- A profession -- Flight -- The survivor -- The elephant -- Sidereus Nuncius -- Give us -- Chess Chess II -- Memorandum book.
Summary: "In 1944, Primo Levi was sent to Buna-Monowitz, a subsidiary of Auschwitz, where his training as a chemist helped him to survive. His prose accounts of this time, Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, The Periodic Table and Moments of Reprieve are now internationally regarded as classics. Yet for many of his readers, this will be the first opportunity to encounter Levi's poetic treatment of these appalling events and their painful psychological aftermath. Shemà and Ad ora incerta, his two books of poetry, are collected here for the first time in English. As we have come to expect, they demonstrate once more Levi's extraordinary gifts, both literary and moral: here is a writer who, though inextricably caught up in the tragedy of the Holocaust, manages to be a witness of exemplary impartiality. Primo Levi in 1987." -- from the back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-75) and index.

Shemà : Crescenzago -- Buna -- Singing -- 25 February 1944 -- The crow's song -- Shemà -- Reveille -- Monday -- Another Monday -- After R. M. Rilke -- Ostjuden -- Sunset at Fossoli -- 11 February 1946 -- The glacier -- The witch -- Avigliana -- Waiting -- Epitaph -- The crow's song II -- There were a hundred -- For Adolf Eichmann -- Landing -- Lilith -- In the beginning -- Via Cigna -- The black stars -- Leavetaking --

At an uncertain hour : Pliny -- The girl-child of Pompei -- Huayna Capac -- The gulls of Settimo -- Annunciation -- Toward the valley -- Wooden heart -- The first atlas -- 12 July 1980 -- Dark band -- Autobiography -- Voices -- Unfinished business -- Partisan -- Arachne -- 2000 -- Passover -- Laid up -- Old mole -- A bridge -- The work -- A mouse -- Nachtwache -- Agave -- Pearl oyster -- The snail -- A profession -- Flight -- The survivor -- The elephant -- Sidereus Nuncius -- Give us -- Chess Chess II -- Memorandum book.

"In 1944, Primo Levi was sent to Buna-Monowitz, a subsidiary of Auschwitz, where his training as a chemist helped him to survive. His prose accounts of this time, Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, The Periodic Table and Moments of Reprieve are now internationally regarded as classics. Yet for many of his readers, this will be the first opportunity to encounter Levi's poetic treatment of these appalling events and their painful psychological aftermath. Shemà and Ad ora incerta, his two books of poetry, are collected here for the first time in English. As we have come to expect, they demonstrate once more Levi's extraordinary gifts, both literary and moral: here is a writer who, though inextricably caught up in the tragedy of the Holocaust, manages to be a witness of exemplary impartiality. Primo Levi in 1987." -- from the back cover.

Translated from the Italian.

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