While I Am Drawing Breath
Published on 18. June 2014
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Hardback
126 pages
978-1-906570-31-6 (ISBN)
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The experience of living in the Chernivtsi ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow in all Rose Auslaender's poetry. The hardships of a life in hiding, the constant fear of Nazi terror and concentration camps are all harrowingly present, while other poems speak to the mother for whose sake she endured.
After the war Auslaender's later poetry brought her prizes and acclaim, establishing her extraordinary simplicity as a distinctive voice in German poetry.
Rose Auslaender was born in Bucovina, on what is now the Romanian/Ukrainian border. Her first book of poems in German, The Rainbow, was published in Bucharest in 1939, with the majority of its print run destroyed during Nazi occupation. In the Chernivtsi ghetto she became friends with Paul Celan; the pair would meet again in Paris in 1957. Her second collection, Blind Summer, appeared in 1965. Rose died in Duesseldorf in 1988.
The experience of living in the Chernivtsi ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow in all Rose Auslaender's poetry. The hardships of a life in hiding, the constant fear of Nazi terror and concentration camps are all harrowingly present, while other poems speak to the mother for whose sake she endured.
After the war Auslaender's later poetry brought her prizes and acclaim, establishing her extraordinary simplicity as a distinctive voice in German poetry.
Rose Auslaender was born in Bucovina, on what is now the Romanian/Ukrainian border. Her first book of poems in German, The Rainbow, was published in Bucharest in 1939, with the majority of its print run destroyed during Nazi occupation. In the Chernivtsi ghetto she became friends with Paul Celan; the pair would meet again in Paris in 1957. Her second collection, Blind Summer, appeared in 1965. Rose died in Duesseldorf in 1988.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
296 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906570-31-6 (9781906570316)
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Rose Auslander, who died in 1988, was a Jewish German- and English language poet. She was born in Bucovina (on what is now the Romania/Ukraine border), and lived in U.S.A, Romania, and Germany. By the end of her life, she was recognised as one of the truest poets of post-war Germany, a woman and a witness in whom the dark and the light, the ashes and the hope, are so finely balanced that we hold our breath as we read.