Back to Terezin: Holocaust Poems

By Hanoch Guy Kaner

In his first Holocaust book, Terra Treblinka, the author, explores the searing legacy of the Holocaust present in Europe and over it.

In Back to Terezin, the poet tears open the lie that the Holocaust is over. It did not end in 1945. The earth is still crying with the victims’ blood; their souls flutter bitterly above death camps. Waves of Holocaust denial, hate, racism, and genocides expand and threaten to drown democracy.

The poet is left with deep sorrow and visions of revenge at nights.

He is immersed in mourning family members; he does not know their names but keeps searching incessantly obsessively in deserted archives and desecrated cemeteries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781728313054

Hanoch Guy Kaner

Hanoch Guy, Ph.D., Ed.D., spent his childhood and youth in Israel surrounded by citrus orchards, watermelon fields and invading sand dunes. He is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English. Hanoch is emeritus professor of Jewish and Hebrew literature at Temple University specializing in Holocaust literature.. He has mentored and taught poetry classes at the Musehouse center in Philadelphia. Hanoch has published poetry extensively in the US, Israel , the UK, Greece.and Wales. His poems published in Genre, Poetry Newsletter, Tracks, the International Journal of Genocide S tudies, Poetry Motel, Visions International, and Voices Israel and many more, He has won awards for Poetica and Mad Poets Society. Terra Treblinka was a finalist in the Northbook contest. He has won first prize in Better than Starbuck Haiku .contest. Hanoch Guy is the author of eleven poetry books

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Published by AuthorHouse  06/11/2019

ISBN: 978-1-7283-1306-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-7283-1305-4 (e)

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Contents

Under barracks

Search lights

Caged

Major attraction

Art lovers

Planets of devour

Phosphorus souls

Europe’s fault

White Shrouds

Defendant

Freedom feast

Grandparents

Twenty two years erased

In transit

Because you have