Miklos Radnoti translations
These are my English translations of Holocaust poems by Miklos Radnoti, with a bio following the poems.
Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti, written August 30, 1944
translation by Michael R. Burch
Holocaust Poems
These are poems I have written about the Holocaust ...
Pfennig Postcard, Wrong Address
by Michael R. Burch
We saw their pictures:
tortured out of Our imaginations
like golems.
We could not believe
in their frail extremities
or their gaunt faces,
pallid as Our disbelief.
they are not
with us now;
We have:
huddled them
into the backroomsofconscience,
consigned them
to the ovensofsilence,
buried them in the mass graves
of circumstancesbeyondourcontrol.
