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

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

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