My Post-Holocaust Second Generation Voice: History / Memory / Identity

My Post-Holocaust Second Generation Voice: History / Memory / Identity by poet, fiction writer, and playwright J.J. Steinfeld has recently been published by Ekstasis Editions.

In this collection, the poet continues to confront themes that are interwoven for him with the Holocaust and its unending effects on history, memory, and identity, on the victims of the Holocaust, on all Holocaust survivors and their descendants, on subsequent generations. Surrounding it all, is the need to remember, to never forget.

Through the powerfully evocative poems of history, memory, and identity such as “The Memory Travellers,” “Second Generation,”“Dreaming the History of Tattooed Numbers,” and “Small Preposterous,” the unflinching poems in My Post-Holocaust Second Generation Voice: History / Memory / Identity invite the reader to join the writer in his mind-and-heart poetic journey through the past, present, and with hope for the future.

Steinfeld lives hidden away on PEI/Epekwitk, where he is patiently waiting for Godot’s arrival and a phone call from Kafka. While waiting, he has published twenty-five books: two novels, fourteen short story collections, and nine poetry collections, with nearly 500 of his short stories and over 1000 poems having appeared in anthologies and periodicals internationally, and over 60 of his one-act plays and a handful of full-length plays having been performed in Canada and the United States.