Strangers to Their Courage
Poems
Published on 31. December 2001
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-0-8071-2720-9 (ISBN)
Description
In Strangers to Their Courage Alice Derry contemplates an awkward, even taboo, subject - the persecution and suffering of the German population before, during, and after World War II. Derry, an American who studied in Berlin in the 1960s, chronicles here the anguish of an entire people who "deserved" their lot, a people permanently tainted by the horrifying events of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Sparked by her desire to capture in verse the torment of her German cousins, who had survived the horrors of war only to be separated by the division of Germany, Derry penned these poems over a quarter century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-2720-9 (9780807127209)
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Person
Alice Derry is a native of Portland, OR. She now lives in Port Angeles, Washington where she teaches composition, literature, and German at Peninsula College. She holds B.A. degrees in German and English, an M.A. in English, and an MFA in Poetry from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, MT, American University in Washington DC, and Goddard College in Plainfield, VT, respectively. Her previous books are Stages of Twilight (Breitenbush Books, 1986) and Clearwater (Blue Begonia Press, 1997). Her poems have been anthologized in such prestigious publications as Poetry and Alaska Quarterly Review.