Poetic Grief: Form and Remembrance After National Socialism (Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics)

Grief is non-linear and destabilizing. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world.Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism.Moving beyond established paradigms of trauma and representation, the book offers a formally grounded and affect-oriented approach to post-Holocaust poetry that develops a new framework for understanding the relationship between reading poetry and the experience of grief. Bringing together phenomenologically informed close readings and historical-political analysis, Poetic Grief considers how poetry can affect embodied experiences through rhythm and breath, how its complex semantic patterns can collapse epistemic certainty and upend the flow of time - like grief does.New readings of poets familiar to the context of Holocaust remembrance such as Paul Celan, Dan Pagis, Charlotte Delbo, and Irena Klepfisz appear alongside analyses of poets remembering National Socialism at different historical moments, i