cover image Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual Edition in German and English

Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual Edition in German and English

Paul Celan. George Braziller, $16.95 (350pp) ISBN 978-0-89255-134-7

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.)