?One of the strongest literary renditions of the Shoah I know.??Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize?winning author of The Years of Extermination
I, oneHenryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski,
Head Clerk of Closed Files,
a department of one,
work...
in a forgotten well of ghostly sighs
This astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother's diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war.
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Philip Schultz is the author of eight poetry collections, including Luxury and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Failure. The founder of the Writers Studio, he has been teaching creative writing since 1971. He resides in East Hampton, New York.
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"One of the strongest literary renditions of the Shoah I know.”—Saul Friedlander, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Years of Extermination
I, one Henryk Stanislaw Wyrzykowski, Head Clerk of Closed Files, a department of one, work... in a forgotten well of ghostly sighsThis astonishing novel in verse tells the story of Henryk Wyrzykowski, a drifting, haunted young man hiding from the Vietnam War in the basement of a San Francisco welfare building and translating his mother's diaries. The diaries concern the Jedwabne massacre, an event that took place in German-occupied Poland in 1941. Wildly inventive, dark, beautiful, and unrelenting, The Wherewithal is a meditation on the nature of evil and the destruction of war.