Paul Celan: Selections
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 two prose works, The Meridian, Celan's core statement on poetics, and the narrative Conversation in the Mountains. This volume also includes letters...
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"Paul Celan is one of the essential poets—not just of the twentieth century, but of all time. Pierre Joris's selections from the remarkable, heart-shattering work provide what is surely the best one-volume introduction to Celan ever published in English."—Paul Auster"No twentieth-century poet pierces the heart of language with such an exquisite blade as Paul Celan. With Pierre Joris & company's translations of key poems, poetics, letters, and exemplary commentary, it is as if we are reading Celan for the last time, once again."—Charles Bernstein, author of With Strings"Joris has dwelled during the better part of his life in Celan's words and silences and, as his brilliant introduction demonstrates, he has journeyed through the work's intricacies like very few others."—Michael Palmer, author of The Promises of Glass"A beautiful—and necessary—book. Celan's charred radiance shines through every page."—Richard Sieburth, translator of Hymns and Fragments
Introduction : "polysemy without mask"3As partisan of erotic absolutism41The sand from the urns42In praise of remoteness43Corona44Death fugue46The jars48Count the almonds49I heard it said50With a variable key51Shibboleth52Speak, you too54The vintagers56Voices58Tenebrae61Speech-grille63Matiere de Bretagne65Stretto67There was earth in them75Zurich, Zum Storchen76Psalm78Tubingen, Janner79Alchemical81Radix, matrix83Blackearth85To one who stood at the door86Mandorla88Siberian89The syllable pain91And with the book from Tarussa93You may97In the rivers97To stand97Threadsuns98Wordaccretion98Singable remnant99No sandart anymore100Harbor100The jugglerdrum103In Prague103Ashglory104The written105Frihed106Solve107Coagula108Once109Frankfurt, September110Detour-/maps111Spasms112Pau, later112The stallion113Lyon, Les Archers114The industrious115When I don't know, don't know116You were117Line the wordcaves117Near, in the aortic arch117Imagine118Soundscraps, visionscraps120We already lay120Contact mines121Cleared121Once121Two at Brancusi's122Todtnauberg122To a brother in Asia123Oranienstrasse I124Strew ocher124Leap centuries125Trek-scow-time126You be like you127Unwashed, unpainted128You lie129Lilac air130Well-graves130The breached year131Unreadability131Whorish Else131What sews132I hear the axe has blossomed133With the voice of the fieldmouse134In lizard134Snowpart135Almonding you136It stood136The swelter137We who like the seaoats guard137A ring, for bowdrawing138The radiance138Nitidous you139Come140A bootfull of brain140The trumpet's part140The poles141The kingsway141There also142I drink wine142Something shall be143Nothingness143In the bellshape144As I144Strangeness144Illuminated145Conversation in the mountains (1959)149The meridian (1960)154Letter #1 : to Gisele Celan-Lestrange (1952)177Letter #2 : to Gisele Celan-Lestrange (1952)178Letter #3 : to Erich Einhorn (1962)179Letter #4 : to Erich Einhorn (1962)181Letter #5 : to Rene Char (unsent) (1962)183Letter #6 : to Jean-Paul Sartre (unsent) (1962)186Letter #7 : to Gisele Celan-Lestrange (1965)188Letter #8 : to Eric Celan (1968)191Letter #9 : from Gisele Celan-Lestrange to Paul (1969)193Letter #10 : to Gisele Celan-Lestrange (1970)196Das Stundenglas, tief (facsimile)197Uber dich hinaus (facsimile)198Es wird etwas sein, spater (facsimile)199Paul Celan and language203Encounters with Paul Celan205For Paul Celan209On Paul Celan in Neuchatel215The memory of words217
