A sampling of poems from Whatever You Can Carry, by Stephen Herz

The book opens with a "found poem" and then a poem in the voices of a family--the poet's--enjoying conversation over breakfast, in the US in 1938. The book then chronicles the Holocaust, in voices of witnesses (victims, Nazis, local civilians), and closes in the voice of a third generation member of that breakfasting family, who has visited Auschwitz after the war, and then the voice of the poet, in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Whatever You Can Carry

On Looking at 2,500 Pictures of French Children Deported in the Cattle Cars from Drancy to Auschwitz.

In Your Lager Dream.

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