Description: Paul Celan is widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. His poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust, at once demanding and highly rewarding. This new selection of translations of Celan's poems focuses on previously untranslated work and opens up facets of his oeuvre never before available to readers of English. These translations, called "perfect in language, music, and spirit" by Yehuda Amichai, work from the implied premise of what has perceptively been called Intention auf die Sprache, delivering the spirit of Celan's work -- his dense multilingual resonances, his brutal broken music, syntactic ruptures, and dizzying wordplay.

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