From his prison cell, where he awaited execution for conspiring to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Bonhoeffer wrote 10 powerful poems, charged with white-hot emotions

These poems were written in prison, in the depth of night, by the poor light of a peculiar lamp, assembled from an old inkwell, a little alcohol that I smuggled

Adapted from the Persian by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani based on translations by Violette and Ali Nakhjavani, these poems testify to the courage and the despair, the mi