Paul Celan, Author, Nikolai Popov, Translator, Heather McHugh, Translator Wesleyan University Press $24.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6448-1
Though fluent in a number of languages, Celan (1920-1970), who had come to Paris from Romanian Bukovina, pointedly wrote in German after WWII. His decomposition and recasting of that language, through a style that can seem dizzying in its complex...
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Paul Celan, Author, Rosmarie Waldrop, Translator, Rosemarie Waldrop, Translator Sheep Meadow Press $15.95 (77p) ISBN 978-0-935296-92-1
For Celan, the Romanian-born poet who survived a Nazi labor camp and committed suicide in 1970, poetry aspired to silence. His sparse, intense prose pieces, gathered in this small volume, reflect both his mistrust of the medium of language and his...
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Paul Celan, Author, Michael Hamburger, Translator, Michael Hamburger, Illustrator George Braziller $16.95 (350p) 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 .
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Paul Celan, Author, John Felstiner, Translator W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (426p) ISBN 978-0-393-04999-2
Though fluent in a number of languages, Celan (1920-1970), who had come to Paris from Romanian Bukovina, pointedly wrote in German after WWII. His decomposition and recasting of that language, through a style that can seem dizzying in its complex...
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Paul Celan, Author, Julian Semilian, Author, Paul Stuart, Author Green Integer $10.95 (82p) ISBN 978-1-892295-41-5
Before 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
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Paul Celan, Author, Pierre Joris, Translator Sun and Moon Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55713-217-8
In Europe, Celan has become an increasingly important poet of the second half of the 20th century, largely for his efforts to create a post-Holocaust language for German poetry. The facts of his life seem inseparable from his work: his term in a...
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Paul Celan, Author, Pierre Joris, Translator Sun and Moon Press $13.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55713-294-9
Though fluent in a number of languages, Celan (1920-1970), who had come to Paris from Romanian Bukovina, pointedly wrote in German after WWII. His decomposition and recasting of that language, through a style that can seem dizzying in its complex...
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Paul Celan, trans. from the German by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (608p) ISBN 978-0-374-29837-1
This ambitious bilingual edition completes Joris’s herculean effort to translate all of Celan’s poetry into English. Celan’s experiences of trauma as a Holocaust survivor permeate poems such as “Todesfuge” (“Deathfugue”): “Black milk of dawn we...
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Paul Celan, trans. from the German and with commentary by Pierre Joris. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (736p) ISBN 978-0-374-12598-1
Hard to forget and harder to interpret, the dense and astonishing poems of Paul Celan (1920–1970) stand near the center of postwar European letters, and of Jewish writing after the Holocaust. This first appearance in English of the complete late...
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