This poet compared a genre whose name she coined to testimonio, the tradition in Latin American literature to write as if before a court of law. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet who compiled many examples of “poetry of witness” into the anthology Against Forgetting. This woman included a series of poems about violence in El Salvador in her collection The Country Between Us.
ANSWER: Carolyn Forché
[10e] Forché writes that the poetry written by survivors of this event, such as Primo Levi and Nelly Sachs, “bears witness to extremity by its inability to articulate directly or completely.”
ANSWER: the Holocaust [or the Shoah]
[10m] Against Forgetting includes this Holocaust poem of witness, which repeats the phrases “we shovel a grave in the air there you won't lie too cramped” and “Black milk of daybreak we drink you at night.”
ANSWER: “Death Fugue” [or “Todesfuge”] (by Paul Celan)
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