Poetry. While many books have been published about the nightmare of Germany and the Holocaust, none have the unique mixture of horror, black comedy and existential bile that poet Elliot Richman brings to the subject. Traveling deep into the recesses of the human psyche, Richman mines a dark vein and brings us back to the surface sweating and terrified, yet somehow better for having been there with him. Part surreal comic book, part personal nightmare diary, Richman has written a book illuminated in the light from the chimneys of Auschwitz that reinvents the obscenity of that time and our own and renders them both powerfullly and memorably.