Paul Celan
Subtitle: Selections (Poets for the Millennium)
Contributors: Pierre Joris (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 14, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780520223806
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Continental European; Poetry; USA; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Celan, Paul; American - General; Criticism and interpretation; Translations into English
Description: 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 to Celan's wife, the artist Gisele Celan-Lestrange; to his friend Erich Einhorn; and to Rene Char and Jean-Paul Sartre--all appearing here for the first time in English. --New York Review of Books.