Looking Back Going Forward New & Selected Poems

Herman Taube's poetry reveals the inner world of a soulful but driven man who for more than 60 years has been writing not only about mass murder during WWII and the destruction of a thousand-year Jewish culture. "I live on a reserve/ of burdensome memories/ amassed in dark times," he writes, "They are the power/ that excites, provokes,/ and stimulates my actions." Conscripted into the Polish Army in 1941, his unit was captured by the Soviets and imprisoned in Siberia. Taube was released after the break-up of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and made his way to Uzbekistan where he headed a malarial clinic until 1944, when he was sent as a medic to Kursk. His ambulance was blown up on the battlefield and he nearly died. Taube's poems chronicle these years and then the post-war years in the U.S. - while his poetry is often conversation in tone, the poems are emotionally resonant in evoking what he and his fellow survivors endured during the war and in the year afterwards.Taube, Herman is the author of 'Looking Back Going Forward New & Selected Poems' with ISBN 9781928755036 and ISBN 1928755038.