Poems of Paul Celan
The peerless translations of this haunted—and haunting—Holocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. 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.\ Author Biography: A Romanian Jew, Paul...
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The peerless translations of this haunted—and haunting—Holocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. 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.Author Biography: A Romanian Jew, Paul Celan was born in 1920. He survived the death of both of his parents at the hands of the Nazis and eighteen months in a labor camp before escaping to Paris, where he spent most of his adult life. Celan was never able to overcome his sense of loss and alienation following the Second World War, and he died, a suicide, in 1970. For his Celan translations, Michael Hamburger was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize, and the prestigious Goethe medal.George SteinerOne's gratitude for [Hamburger's] Celan versions...is unstinted. —New Yorker
PrefaceIntroductionTallow Lamp3Your hand full of hours5Your Hair above the Sea7Aspen tree9The Secret of the Ferns11Sand from the Urns13The Last Flag15In the cherry tree's branches17The Banquet19Memory of France21Chanson of a Lady in the Shade23Night Ray25The Years from You to Me27Corona29Death Fugue31Into the Foghorn35I am the first35Crystal37Shroud39The Travelling Companion41Eyes43Landscape43Count the almonds45From Darkness to Darkness49Epitaph for Francois49Assisi51This Evening Also53In Front of a Candle55With a Variable Key59Nocturnally Pouting61Time's Eye63In Memoriam Paul Eluard65Shibboleth67Speak, You Also69Argumentum e Silentio71The Vintagers75Isleward77Confidence81With Letter and Clock83Under a Picture83Homecoming85Below87Tenebrae89Flower91White and Light93Language Mesh95Snow-Bed97Night99Matiere de Bretagne101Rubble Barge103All Souls105Draft of a Landscape107Voiceless, above109Low Water111An Eye, Open113The Straitening115There was earth inside them131Over wine and lostness133Zurich, the Stork Inn135So many constellations137Your/being beyond139On both hands141Twelve Years143With all my thoughts145The Lock Gate147Dumb autumn smells149Ice, Eden151Psalm153Tubingen, January155Alchemical157... plaster the fountain161It is no longer163Radix, Matrix165Mandorla167Cheek nestled up169Two-housed, eternal one171A la Pointe Aceree171The bright/stones175Anabasis177Afternoon with Circus and Citadel179In the Daytime181Kermorvan181I have cut bamboo183What occurred?183In One185Crowned out187Les Globes189Tabernacle Window191Everything's different195In the air201Ways in the Shadow-Rockslide207To Stand209Pledged to the persecuted209Thread suns211In the snake carriage211Piling-on of words213Etched away217No more sand art219When whiteness attached us219Hollow homestead of life219On the white prayer-thong221Go blind223Sewn under the skin223Landscape225The juggler's drum227Black229When you lie231In Prague233That which was written235Cello entry237King's rage239Solve241Coagula243Thick Easter smoke245A rumbling247Give the Word249Vast, glowing vault251Uprising of smoke banners, word banners253Once255Eternities259You were261To my right261Gull chicks263Irish265Dew265... and no kind of267Powers, Dominions267Think of it269In the great273Scraps of heard, of seen things275Night rode him275Hands277We were lying277That which279At Brancusi's, the Two of Us279Todtnauberg281Now283For a Brother in Asia283How You285Highgate285I can still see you287The eternities287The Irishwoman289No more half-wood289Oranienstrasse I291Submerged293Fallow-voiced295Obstructive tomorrow297Sprinkle ochre299Leap-centuries301Do not work ahead303Well-digger307The broached year307Illegibility309Whorish othertime309I hear that the axe has flowered311With the voice of a fieldmouse311World to be stuttered by heart313Januaried313Largo315Mapesbury Road317A leaf319Salvaging319Walking Plant323Not until323All those sleep shapes325Little Night325I fool about327A star329The trumpet part331The poles333Translator's Note on "Wolfsbohne"337Wolf's-Bean341On Translating Celan346Index of German Titles363Index of English Titles365
\ George SteinerOne's gratitude for [Hamburger's] Celan versions...is unstinted. —New Yorker\ \ \ \ \ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ This bilingual edition spans the great and tragic German poet's career from 1920 until his suicide in 1970. In much of the work, ``Celan writes about the Holocaust--though by contrast and allusion--in poems that are dark, sharply felt and authentic . . . economical in the extreme,'' determined PW. (Nov.)\ \ \ Library JournalCryptic. Paradoxical. Difficult. These are words that award-winning translator Hamburger uses to describe Celan's poems. A Romanian Jew who lost his parents in the Holocaust, Celan survived--until committing suicide in 1970--to produce an impressive body of work. Possessed by a terrifying vision, his poems in this expanded and revised bilingual edition of an earlier and now-out-of-print collection nevertheless do not express the terror overtly. But we feel it in the tensions his lines create. Celan does not give us confessional poetry; it is his power to lead us to his private vision, the stuff of all great poetry, that makes his a voice we must learn to hear. Here is an artistry to cherish, and Hamburger is to be applauded for his superb translations of a major poet.-- Vincent D. Balitas, Allentown Coll., Center Valley, Pa.\ \
