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 Gis簿聶翻le Celan-Lestrange; to his friend
Erich Einhorn; and to Ren簿聶翻 Char and Jean-Paul Sartre--all appearing here for the first time in English. 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 Gis簿聶翻le Celan-Lestrange; to his friend Erich Einhorn; and to Ren簿聶翻 Char and Jean-Paul Sartre--all appearing here
for the first time in English.
