Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness

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This landmark anthology, the first of its kind, takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecth: “In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.” Bearing witness to extremity – whether of war, torture, exile or repression – the volume encompasses more than 140 poems from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square.