Beyond Good and Evil

January 13, 2005 | This article appeared in the January 31, 2005 edition of The Nation.

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Adorno said, as we all know, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. This is not to say, as many imagine, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is to be forbidden, or is impossible.

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