Mother of the Wire Fence

Plank explores the boundaries that lie between those outside and inside the experience of the Holocaust, attempting to bridge the gap with the power of poetry, artifact, memory, and religious symbol. "Plank's work is authentic. Its truth painful. He has taken us close to the inside".--Michael Berenbaum, author of The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

About the author

Karl Plank has published widely. In 2017, he published two chapbooks: A Field, Part Arable (Lithic Press) and BOSS: Rewriting Rilke (Red Bird Chapbooks). In a more academic context, his last critical book was The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (Routledge, 2021). Plank recently retired as the J.W. Cannon Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, at Davidson College where he taught in the field of Religion and Literature

Product details

• Authors: Karl Plank, Karl A. Plank
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.1994
• EAN: 9780664252199
• ISBN: 978-0-664-25219-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 276 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama