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The Last Stone In The Circle Poems. Selections by Praitis, Irena, 1967- author is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Poetry. Based on eyewitness accounts, THE LAST STONE IN THE CIRCLE chronicles experiences of prisoners in a WWII German work re- education camp. Delving into the murkiness of human experience in the face of suffering, the poems consider the complicated choices people make in impossibly difficult circumstances and explore the sheer resilience of survival. "In her extraordinary book THE LAST STONE IN THE CIRCLE, Irena Praitis examines the nature of evil as a central paradox of human experience. The Holocaust is the poet's occasion for an appraisal of social destruction. This serious, substantive topic is an essential addition to the genre of tragic literature."Denise Low, author of JACKALOPE and MELANGE BLOCK, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007- 2009 "These poems report from the human edge and as their readers we are changed. That they are visually simple is what makes them shockingso few words revealing so much... of sadness, regret, outrage, pain. Underneath [it] all music offers itself everywhere. This is a clearly important book, worthy in its humanly difficult work."Alberto Ros, poet, memoirist, Arizona Poet Laureate 2013-2015 "This powerful debut sears itself in memory, not by its vivid
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Praitis, Irena, 1967- author
- Publisher
- Santa Fe, New Mexico: Red Mountain Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780990804765
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14