Poem
So Warsaw’s Coming to Wait on Us Now
| Title | So Warsaw’s Coming to Wait on Us Now |
|---|---|
| Author | Medbh McGuckian |
Instances of Publication
A published appearance of this poem.
| Collection/Anthology | Year of Publication | Medium | View Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blaris Moor | 2015 | Print Collection | View Details |
Publication Instance Details #3367
Collection/Anthology Details
| Collection/Anthology | Blaris Moor |
|---|---|
| Date of Publication | 2015 |
| Publisher | The Gallery Press (Ireland) |
| Page Number(s) | 58-59 |
Publication Overview
| Translation | Is Multilingual | Explicit Irish Context? | Ekphrasis | Has Paratext? | Reference to News, Media or Technology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Details
| Human Rights Issues | |
|---|---|
| War / Genocide Referenced | |
| Languages | |
| Genre | Short Lyric |
| Medium | Print Collection |
| Notes | This poem, written in the first person (singular and plural), focuses on small details of the daily survival by Jews against the background of the constant threat of death during World War II. Shane Alcobia-Murphy has identified an important intertext on which the poem is based: 'Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto' by Michal Grynberg. Like other poems by McGuckian in this dataset, eye-witness accounts from other sources are incorporated into her poems. This is a self-reflexive technique that underscores the challenge of bearing witness to atrocity. |
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