George GeraldGerald George felt his interest in the Holocaust become an obsession as he tried to make sense of a disaster in which six million people perished. He began writing poems about it, not to explain it but to keep it from becoming a statistic, to portrayindividual people who endured it, including those who let it happen. He sees his book as penitential, in effect a prayer. He has previously published two books of poetry: Figments and Imitations of Indonesia and Other Poems. He has also published poetry in numerous periodicals and anthologies, and his verse play Bailey's Mistake was performed in Portland's 2008 Maine One-Act Play Festival. He served on the editorial board of the literary journal Off the Coast, and for several years he coordinated the annual Roque Bluffs Poetry Festival. He and his wife Carol live in Belfast, Maine. Read More Read Less