This landmark anthology takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: In the dark times, will there be singing? /Yes, there will be singing./About the dark times.
Bearing Witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--the volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, over the span of this century from the Armenian genocide to Tiananmen Square..
Bearing Witness to extremity--whether of war, torture, exile, or repression--this volume encompasses more than 140 poets from five continents, a chorus of voices from dark times, giving testimony to the poetic imagination seared by the fire of human suffering.
This landmark anthology takes its impulse from the words of Bertolt Brecht: In the dark times, will there be singing? /Yes, there will be singing./About the dark times