Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Great Regulars: Near the end,

the poem's speaker--we assume it's [Willa] Schneberg herself--admits she's related a Holocaust scene to a Cambodian acquaintance "as if it were my story." And this is where the poem's power resides: not in its depictions of horror but in Schneberg's recognition of her compromised position as a storyteller in Cambodia.

from B.T. Shaw: The Oregonian: Poetry

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