Romanian Poems
Poetry. Translated from the Romanian by Julian Semilian and Sanda Agalidi. Paul Celan was a poet of many layers, and until recently readers of English could only imagine his power and complexity. In this book, English language readers can now know the Romanian works of Celan. "Paul Celan. has become the raw material of so much critical processing, it has become difficult to read him without hearing the voices of the commentators. The continual buzzing of the interpretive chorus around Celan's...
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The first translation into English of Celan's Romanian poems.Publishers WeeklyBefore his decisive move to writing in German after 1948, Paul Celan (1920-1970), who grew up in Bukovina, wrote poetry in Romanian; work from 1945 to 1947 is here collected in Romanian Poems. With facing-page translations by Julian Semilian and Sanda Agalidi, these 17 poems and prose pieces alter Celan's oeuvre, and are essential to it. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Introduction7Encounter25Love song27Last night29Poem for Mariana's shadow31Night of the New Year35[Blinded by giant leaps]37Melancholy41[Without title. Fragment of an unfinished poem]43[Without banister]45[The next day the deportations about to begin]49[Perhaps one day]53[Once again I suspended the great white parasols]57[It is conceivable one could believe]61[Finally the instant is here]69[Partisan of the erotical absolute]71[Those were nights]73Questions & Answers76
\ Publishers WeeklyBefore his decisive move to writing in German after 1948, Paul Celan (1920-1970), who grew up in Bukovina, wrote poetry in Romanian; work from 1945 to 1947 is here collected in Romanian Poems. With facing-page translations by Julian Semilian and Sanda Agalidi, these 17 poems and prose pieces alter Celan's oeuvre, and are essential to it. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.\ \
