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Lele, the narrator, is a young Latvian woman whose parents were victims of the war: her father shot by the Soviets as a member of the intelligentsia (he ran Riga’s water system), her mother dead of starvation, one of the thousands abandoned by their Nazi captors in the final weeks be...
Clearly, answer is not the destination of these poems. What Kasischke does instead is to write back toward the truths posed, like a category from Jeopardy, by her title. How she does so (“It would take forever to get there / but I would know it anywhere,” she writes in “Home”)...