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I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Poetry After Auschwitz

“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language…” wrote the German-speaking Jewish poet Paul Celan, who worked in a forced labor camp during World War II and whose parents died in the camps. “But it had to go through its own lack of answers, through terrifying silence, through the thousand darknesses of murderous speech…”

In this special evening of poetry commemorating the end of the Second World War in Europe and the Holocaust, join The Anne Frank Center USA as it explores this language of loss and its ability to tell one’s personal story, or as Celan put it, “to orient myself, to find out where I was, where I was going, to chart my reality.”

For the event, contemporary poets Timothy Donnelly (The Cloud Corporation), Matthea Harvey (If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?) and Lynn Melnick (If I Should Say I Had Hope) will read excerpts from remarkable writers such as Paul Celan, Adrienne Rich and Anna Rabinowitz, whose writings are intimately connected with the themes of remembrance, resistance and loss.

The reading is part of The Anne Frank Center USA’s Writing and Resistance Literary Series, which examines the relationship between writing, struggle and self-discovery.











When: Tue., Apr. 28, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect
44 Park Pl.
212-431-7993
Price: $8 adults, $5 students and seniors
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“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language…” wrote the German-speaking Jewish poet Paul Celan, who worked in a forced labor camp during World War II and whose parents died in the camps. “But it had to go through its own lack of answers, through terrifying silence, through the thousand darknesses of murderous speech…”

In this special evening of poetry commemorating the end of the Second World War in Europe and the Holocaust, join The Anne Frank Center USA as it explores this language of loss and its ability to tell one’s personal story, or as Celan put it, “to orient myself, to find out where I was, where I was going, to chart my reality.”

For the event, contemporary poets Timothy Donnelly (The Cloud Corporation), Matthea Harvey (If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?) and Lynn Melnick (If I Should Say I Had Hope) will read excerpts from remarkable writers such as Paul Celan, Adrienne Rich and Anna Rabinowitz, whose writings are intimately connected with the themes of remembrance, resistance and loss.

The reading is part of The Anne Frank Center USA’s Writing and Resistance Literary Series, which examines the relationship between writing, struggle and self-discovery.

Buy tickets/get more info now