His experience of the anthill on fire is not pressed upon the reader; rather, it emerges indirectly, often, in prose, by way of biographies of friends and fellow-poets who did not survive, whose fates landed them among the enforcers of Fascist or Communist ideology.
They also hamper efforts by the group HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive), whose Mobile Services Van distributes condoms and provides new syringe access to sex workers.
"We had survived footballers whose monosyllabic grunts would make a silverback gorilla sound as if he were reciting Shakespeare.
It's a fitting word for a woman who survived, and whose life's work was dedicated to honouring the memory of those who, tragically, did not.
And, the effects of these conditions also impacted countless more pregnant women and mothers who survived, but whose health may have deteriorated as a result.
Alternatively, only survived patients, whose pulmonary reserve capacity strikingly decreased, at 3 months from the onset of AE-IPF may have been benefited from treatment with PMX-DHP.
Alter, whose father survived Auschwitz and whose grandparents died in the Holocaust, says it has been a struggle to identify himself as German but, having sought help for his "personal traumas", he has come to terms with his nationality.
In her BBC documentary The Ascent of Woman, Amanda Foreman met 84-year-old Wang Huiyuan, one of the few surviving women whose feet hads been bound.
On Thursday, the three surviving mayors whose campaigns he shaped will honor him by starting a fund-raising campaign to endow a professorship of public policy in his name at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
"This is right up there with those anecdotes of people falling out of airplanes and surviving, people whose parachutes don't open and somehow they manage to survive," Dr. Barie said in an interview after the press conference.
