transcript by Heimrad Backer

Heimrad Backer's book of concrete poetry transcript (to be published in Patrick Greaney and Vincent Kling's English translation by Dalkey Archive next March) consists entirely of quotations of material relating to the holocaust seen from the perspective of both its victims and the perpetrators. A few rearrangements using techniques such as repetition (all indicated in the notes at the end) are made to draw out the nature of the language used, particularly as regards documents that...