Reviews
"an impressive tribute to the multifaceted and life-affirming response poets have made to this grimmest of al topics."
--AM LITERATURE
"Drawing from theories of Robert Jay Lifton, Theodor Adorno, and Edith Wyschogrod, Gery offers a cogent and nuanced discussion of Auschwitz as both a uniquely extreme event and a human disaster comparable to the nuclear 'death-world.' Building on Wyschogrod's study of Martin Heidegger's call for a 'reassessment of the relationship between language and "techne"' (25), Gery argues that poetry provides both a 'pertinent voice in the discourse of survival' and a hermeneutic mode of disclosing what is at stake both in nuclear catastrophe and 'the more abstract concept of annihilation' (8)." -- Contemporary Literature
--Contemporary Literature
"Gery's important achievement has been to integrate a field full of fugitive insights into a coherent schema in which the integrity of the poems as linguistic artifacts is fully honored at the same time that their revelations about our precarious life in the next century nourish our ability as citizens to exert control over our fate."
--Michigan Quarterly Review