What Did You Lose in Poland?

'What did you lose in Poland?' Shuki Gutman's new book of poems is a true discovery. With courage and honesty, he gives us something rare in Hebrew poetry: the voice of the contemporary Jewish-Israeli, who is neither a survivor nor a son of survivors, but rather is someone who is drawn by dark, magical ropes to the death camps of Poland. It is a complex poetic journey, and most delicate but also black and dangerous, a poetic journey that touches many aspects, both the victim's and the execu...