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Title Poetry of witness : the tradition in English, 1500-2001 / edited by Carolyn Forché and Duncan Wu.
Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  808.8193 POE    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description xx, 641 pages ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary Features poems that were written under extreme conditions, by authors who were awaiting execution, imprisoned, on the battlefield, or working in forced labor all while history was being made around them.
Subject Poetry -- Translations into English.
Witnesses -- Poetry.
Political atrocities -- Poetry.
Military history -- Poetry.
Added Author Forché, Carolyn, editor of compilation.
Wu, Duncan, editor of compilation.
ISBN 0393340422 : $29.95
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