Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan

Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents German-speaking Jews had perished at the hands of the Nazis Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue") the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue although it had "passed through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech." His writing purges and remakes that language often achieving a hope-struck ...See More