Work
Des Pres is most well known for his work on the Holocaust documented in: The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps.
At Colgate University he taught "Literature of the Holocaust" and was the William Henry Crawshaw Chair in Literature. At Colgate, he spent time with writer Frederick Busch.
He wrote Praises and Dispraises, published posthumously in 1988, which dealt with poetry and its usefulness for survival.
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“The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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Now you work your way up the legs
and come to pierce me at my hunger mark.”
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