Paul Celan
Paul Celan was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1920, and is considered by many to be the greatest German-language poet of the second half of the twentieth century. He survived the Holocaust and settled in Paris in 1948, where he lived and wrote until his suicide in 1970. His poetry collections include Poppy and Memory, Speechgrille, Breathturn and Timestead. His prose is gathered in Microliths they are, Little Stones. He remains probably best known for his poem "Todesfuge" ("Death Fugue").
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Memory Rose into Threshold Speech
Paul Celan; Translated from the German by Pierre Joris; With Commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara Wiedemann
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as the major post-World...
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Breathturn into Timestead
Paul Celan; Translated from the German and with Commentary by Pierre Joris
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2015 National Translation Award Winner in Poetry
Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony...
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