While I Am Drawing Breath

This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.The experience of living in the Chernivtsi ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow in all Rose Ausländer's poetry. The hardships of a life in hiding, the constant fear of Nazi terror and concentration camps are all harrowingly present, while other poems speak to the mother for whose sake she endured.After the war Ausländer's la...