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Her name is often spoken in the same breath as these others who are considered among the most brilliant German lyricist of the 20th century: Hilde Domin, Rose Ausl\u00e4nder,<\/span> Ingeborg Bachman. \u00a0I am talking about Dagmar Nick<\/em> who is nonetheless most likely NOT a household name. At least she wasn’t in my household. Not quite sure why that is.<\/p>\n

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Born in Poland in 1926 to musician parents, with some Jewish background, she experienced several displacements, among them one caused by World War II bombs that hit her apartment in Berlin. \u00a0She had a steady career as a writer, author of radio plays and poetry anthologies, with early acknowledgement through national rewards and prizes, and is still alive, living in Munich.<\/p>\n

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I came across her when reading\u00a0After Every War – 20th century women poets –\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0 (a Princeton Paperback) which has been one of my nightstand go-to’s since I discovered this small volume a decade or so ago. Here is a link that informs you about the anthology.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/the-rubble-women-of-poetry-1.406672<\/a><\/p>\n

The sheer breadth of poetry in it, and the emotional depth, intensified by the awareness that several of these poets did not survive the Holocaust, make it a must – read.<\/p>\n

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Since we read Nowhereland<\/em> on Monday, I thought No-Man’s-Land<\/em> today would be a good follow-up, particularly since it touches on the guilt experienced by those who survived.<\/p>\n

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No-Man’s-Land<\/em><\/p>\n

Where the landscape dissolves<\/p>\n

into sky,<\/p>\n

where night after night<\/p>\n

our shadows<\/p>\n

touch each other<\/p>\n

its fettered wings<\/p>\n

on the narrow ridge<\/p>\n

between here and there,<\/p>\n

between where we are<\/p>\n

and where we are not –<\/p>\n

in a cursed circle of blood,<\/p>\n

our dreams gone and no guarantees –<\/p>\n

we lie on the pulsing shore<\/p>\n

battered and beneath<\/p>\n

our fallen banners –<\/p>\n

Powerlessness. Guilt.<\/p>\n

Dagmar Nick, translated by Eavan Boland<\/p>\n

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I, by the way, have not read one of her more recent books,\u00a0Alter Baum<\/em>, but was amused by her publisher’s description of the series that added her work. “Only authors who are 80 or older and write about transience or death without sentimentality and with wit….. ”<\/p>\n

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