Paul Celan is one the twentieth century's most essential poets, and twenty-two years after its publication, Poems of Paul Celan continues to be the single truest access for English-speakers to this poet's work. This new edition adds ten more poems and a significant essay, "On Translating Celan" by Michael Hamburger.
Paul Celan was born in Bukovina in 1920, and lost his parents, German-speaking Jews, at the hands of the Nazis. This volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems and prose. Celan continued writing in German to purge and remake the language the "deathbringing speech".
Paul Celan wrote formal prose reluctantly, and this is a collection of his sparse, illuminating writings on poetry and art, and the aphorisms that contribute to our sense of the poet and his vocation. They include "Conversation in the Mountains" and "The Meridien."
This is the first translation of an entire volume of Celan's poems as a unit rather than a selection of some of the poems as anthology pieces. Only if published in this way do the poems emerge as part of an organic whole, with the integrity of the poem's inner bonds with one another brought closer to the light. Joris is a translator of great skill ...
The best introduction to the work of Paul Celan, this anthology offers a broad collection of his writing in unsurpassed English translations along with a wealth of commentaries by major writers and philosophers. The present selection is based on Celan's own 1968 selected poems, though enlarged to include both earlier and later poems, as well as ...
Born in Romania to Jewish parents, Paul Celan lived through the Third Reich and emerged as a poet, translator and teacher of great courage and resource. "Fathomsuns", a collection published in 1968, is Celan's longest collection and one of his most ambitious. Benighted is a sequence of 11 poems published in an anthology of "abandoned works" by ...
Paul Celan is widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This selection of poems, now available in paper, is comprised of previously untranslated work, opening facets of Celan's oeuvre never before available to ...
One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. In his verse he sought to express 'not only what the experience felt like, but also a sense of living, with ...
This peerless edition, first published in 1980, remains the English- language standard for the poetry of Paul Celan, the Holocaust's most haunting, and haunted, voice.
Paul Celan (1920-1970) stands as one of the greatest post-war European poets, a writer whose painful struggle with the possibilities and limitations of German, his native language, has helped to define the response of poetry in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Celan's prose is as thought-provoking as, and less familiar than, his poetry. The ...
Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891 - 1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920 - 1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried.
Heather McHugh, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, brings her sensibility to these unique translations of the major 20th-century poet Paul Celan. As the work is presented here without the original German, this volume emphasizes the new translations as fresh renderings of the poetry.
Doris Salcedo, a sculptor who lives and works in Bogota, Colombia, is a rising international star. This is a comprehensive monograph of her work and its humanitarian and political content. Her haunting sculptures and installations are painstakingly made from found objects left in the abandoned homes of missing people in Colombia - personal effects ...
Originally published in 1968, two years before his suicide, this work by Celan is in the style of his late career. Though there is desperation throughout, the 1967 poem written on the occasion of Israel's victory in the Six Days War, shows signs of hope. The mystery of Celan's work is retained in this translation.
Reluctant Theologians: Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabes focuses on the problematic faith in the works of Kafka, Celan, and Jabes. Using their literature to reevaluate the notions of God and covenant in light of Nietzsche's "death of God" hypothesis. Kafka anticipates, while Celan and Jabes directly confront, the question whether the covenant ...
Paul Celan was a poet of many layers, and until recently readers of English only could but imagine his power and complexity. Andrei Codrescu wrote of this book: Paul Celan ." . . has become the raw material of so much critical processing, it has become difficult to read him without hearing the voices of the commentators. The continual buzzing of ...
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