Poems of Paul Celan - Softcover

Celan, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089255276X ISBN 13: 9780892552764

Verlag: PERSEA BOOKS INC, 2002

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The peerless translations of this haunted and haunting Holocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. Paul Celan is one the twentieth century's most essential poets, and twenty-two years after its publication, Poems of Paul Celan continues to be the single truest access for English-speakers to this poet's work. This new edition adds ten more poems and a significant essay, "On Translating Celan" by Michael Hamburger.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

PAUL CELAN (1920-1970) was born Paul Antschel of a German-speaking Jewish family in Czernowitz, Bukovina, then part of Romania. He was sent to a labor camp during World War II. After the war, he settled in Paris where he lived with his wife Gisèle Lestrange until his death. He is widely considered to be one of the most innovative and important poets of the twentieth century.

Michael Hamburger (1924-2007) wrote many collections of poetry and criticism. Other notable translations include Baudelaire's Twenty Prose Poems. He received the European Translation Prize for Poems of Paul Celan.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PERSEA BOOKS INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 089255276X
• ISBN 13: 9780892552764
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 366
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