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The Crossed-Out Swastika
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ISBN13: 9781556593796
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: May 8 2012
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Cassells is a passionate poet whose poems touch the core of human connection through which can flow union with the infinite. Highly recommended.--Library Journal
Cyrus Cassells' fifth book commemorates the blazing integrity of young people caught in the vise of World War II. In its journey through the anti-miracle of Europe's embattled past, The Crossed-Out Swastika follows the lives of historical and semi-fictional characters to unearth and amplify moments of almost impossible music, bravery, beauty, and redemption, illuminating the human spirit against unspeakable tyranny.
Poet, from cellar to cellar, I remember
I held onto, of all things,
a picture book about a magical goat,
inscribed by my witty father:
This storybook belongs
to Mademoiselle Sabine
the way Paris once belonged
to Marie Antoinette--
Somehow having that book
helped me to endure . . .
Cyrus Cassells grew up in the Mojave Desert. He graduated from Stanford University and has worked as a translator, film critic, and actor; he currently teaches poetry in the MFA program at Texas State University-San Marcos. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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