. . "We will begin by considering contemporary theory by such thinkers as Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Cathy Caruth, Shoshana Felman, and Dori Laub in the context of first- and second-generation verse responses to the Holocaust by poets from Paul Celan, Dan Pagis, Anthony Hecht, and Gerald Stern to Jorie Graham, Marilyn Hacker, and Jacqueli" . . . . .