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The poet Paul Celan lived from 1920 to 1970.

Paul Celan (born Antschel) was the quintessential exile.

The TLS - A poet's troubled life in pictures.

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Waterhour, the rubble scow
ferries us into evening, we,
like it, are in no hurry, a dead
Why stands at the stern.
—Paul Celan, "Rubble Scow"
trans. Pierre Joris

One hundred years ago, Paul Celan was born; fifty years ago, he died. A variety of books have been released to honor this occasion, but the most significant, for English-language readers at least, is Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry translated by Pierre Joris, who has made the translation of Celan a significant focus of his life's work.

Joris's translation of Celan's 1967 collection Atemwende appeared from Sun & Moon Press in 1995 as Breathturn. This was followed by Threadsuns in 2000, Lightduress and Paul Celan: Selections in 2005, The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materialsin 2013, and then in 2014, the companion volume to the new one: the magisterial Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, which collected Joris's previous translations alongside complete texts of Celan's last and posthumous books (plus detailed commentaries for every poem). With the new omnibus of Celan's first books, we now have his German-language poems complete in English for the first time. Additionally, Joris has published this year his translation of Microlith

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Author: Paul Celan
Type: PAPERBACK
ISBN: 9780140189209
Date: 27th June, 1996
Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
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Poetry and Poets
Individual Poets
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One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. In his verse he sought to express 'not only what the experience felt like, but also a sense of living, with comprehension, inside the experience'. WINNER OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN TRANSLATION PRIZE
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