Tagged: Paul Celan

Paul Celan…

… born today, 23 November, 93 years ago, i.e. in  1920. Left in 1970; is stilled missed. But we have the work. Here is one of the first poems of his I translated back...

Another Paul Celan Poem

On the 11.21. 1965. Paul Celan undertook a trip to Switzerland. That day he wrote the poem Die längst Entdeckten | The long discovered, which he included in the volume Threadsuns, but also wrote the following...

Lithophonic Celan

“Zeitgehöft” – 697 Gedichte von Paul Celan, für Sonifizierungsalgorithmus Celan’s work has ‘inspired’ many composers over the last fifty years, though this one reaches a rare conceptual strangeness. The composer — Johannes Kreidler —used...

An ungathered Paul Celan Poem

The following poem was written 12.15.1962, during the period of composition of Die Niemandsrose, though not taken into that volume. Working on the later poem “Als uns das Weiße anfiel | When whiteness assailed...

Review of the Meridian

Nice review of my translation of the MERIDIAN  (Paul Celan Edited by Bernhard Böschenstein and Heino Schmull) — see clickable book below in left column — in  Journal of Austrian Studies 45:3-4 on 2/1/2013....

Paul Celan, his birthday

Paul Celan’s  92nd birthday was yesterday — he was born 23 November 1920. I waited out Black Friday to post on it. So, to celebrate the man, here, in my translation, a poem, the...