Battles and Lullabies (Illinois Poetry Series)
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ISBN: 0252073037 / Publisher: University of Illinois Press, January 2006
With his father gunned down in a petty robbery and his aunt haunted by the threats of the Gestapo, R...
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With his father gunned down in a petty robbery and his aunt haunted by the threats of the Gestapo, Richard Michelson's experiences growing up in Brooklyn were far from ordinary, yet they remain all too common--too much a part of ongoing violence--to be dismissed as merely private events, safely past. In Counting to Six Million he writes out memory, anxiety, and grief, worry over his wife and children, and the recurring clashes between love and cruelty that test wisdom with suffering, day after day.
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