A Penitential Prayer - Gerald, George
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"In A Penitential Prayer, poet Gerald George confronts the endless pathos of the Holocaust, from the bewilderment of the first innocent victims, to the packed railroad cars carrying them on a one-way trip, to the hunger, stench, and illness of the camps themselves, in which one awakes each morning to the newly dead, to the cruelty of the guards, for whom a rifle butt to the head has become routine-all this George presents in language that is straightforward and unadorned, without once raising his voice to denounce or decry, aware undoubtedly that such abstract utterance would not likely be…mehr

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"In A Penitential Prayer, poet Gerald George confronts the endless pathos of the Holocaust, from the bewilderment of the first innocent victims, to the packed railroad cars carrying them on a one-way trip, to the hunger, stench, and illness of the camps themselves, in which one awakes each morning to the newly dead, to the cruelty of the guards, for whom a rifle butt to the head has become routine-all this George presents in language that is straightforward and unadorned, without once raising his voice to denounce or decry, aware undoubtedly that such abstract utterance would not likely be commensurate with its task; his task admirably performs, being to let the unspeakable speak for itself"-- Provided by publisher.
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Gerald George felt his interest in the Holocaust become an obsession as he tried to make sense of a disaster in which six million people perished. He began writing poems about it, not to explain it but to keep it from becoming a statistic, to portray individual people who endured it, including those who let it happen. He sees his book as penitential, in effect a prayer. He has previously published two books of poetry: Figments and Imitations of Indonesia and Other Poems. He has also published poetry in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and his verse play Bailey's Mistake was performed in Portland's 2008 Maine One-Act Play Festival. He served on the editorial board of the literary journal Off the Coast, and for several years he coordinated the annual Roque Bluffs Poetry Festival. He and his wife Carol live in Belfast, Maine.