Tagged: Paul Celan

Review of Paul Celan: Selections

The following review just published on CUTTY SPOT:   [RE-VIEW OF PAUL CELAN’S ‘SELECTIONS’] ‘Paul Celan’ (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian poet and translator. He was born as...

A Celan Poem from Snowpart

As I am going over / completing / revising my Paul Celan translations, I find here & there among the posthumous volumes a few poems I hadn’t translated so far. Here is one of...

Homage to Paul Celan

Edited by Ilya Kaminsky and G.C.Waldrep “If there is a country named Celania—as Julia Kristeva once proposed—its holy texts are filled with doubt, and they overcome this doubt almost successfully, with words of wrenching, uncompromised...

On Celan’s Meridian

My conversation from earlier this year with Leonard Schwartz on translating Paul Celan’s Meridian first heard on his  Cross Cultural Poetics radio program is now available via PennSound here as Episode #253: “Celan/Bronk,” 2012: Joris discusses his translation...

Celan Reads Mandelstam

  Here is a basic translation into English of this poem by A. S. Kline (see a Kline— Mandelstam site here). Unhappily the attempt to reproduce rhyme schemes etc. simply kills the poem or...

On Celan’s “Meridian”

A review of Paul Celan’s The Meridian just in via the British This Space blog. Below the opening paras. You can read the complete piece here. Poetry, ladies and gentleman: an expression of infinitude, an...

Paul Celan on Jacket2

Paul Celan Paul Celan’s “The Meridian: Final Version—Drafts—Materials” tr. Pierre Joris, ed. Edited by Bernhard Böschenstein and Heino Schmull CHARLES BERNSTEIN The Meridian speech is one of Paul Celan’s key works. This meticulous, fascinating,...