Italian author Primo Levi's two books of poetry, Shema and Ad Ora Incerta, are collected here for the first time in English translation. Levi's poems concentrate on World War II, a period of his life when he was incarcerated in Auschwitz, and the psychological after-effects of his survival. Other books by Primo Levi now available in English translation include The Periodic Table, If This is a Man, The Truce, If Not Now, When?, Moments of Reprieve and The Wrench.