Paul Celan, Poems of Paul Celan tags: paul-celan, poetry 54 likes Like There was earth inside them, and they dug. John Bayley wrote in the New York Review of Books, 'Felstiner translates. worn-out knot of breath youre there, with a splinter of life. John Felstiner's translations stem from a twenty-year immersion in Celan's life and work. All poems appear in the original and in translation on facing pages.

This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose. But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine. Title, Prose Writings & Selected Poems Volume 1 of Paper Castle mimeographs Author, Paul Celan Translated by, Jerry Glenn, Walter Billeter Publisher, Paper.

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 radiance never before seen in modern poetry. 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. The poetry itself begins in snow, death, and darkness Celans early work interrogates the death of his parents. Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe's leading postwar poet, including previously unpublished writings.

Selected poems and prose of paul celan