Paul Celan
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One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts December 23, 2024
“Paul Celan’s poems reach us, but we miss them,” wrote the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, giving succinct expression to the allure of one of Europe’s most important postwar poets, who remains as intriguing as he is perplexing more than 50 years afte...
Private Riddles June 24, 2024
Anne Carson once wrote that Paul Celan is ‘a poet who uses language as if he were always translating.’ His elliptical, compressed poetry has been a longstanding influence on Yoko Tawada, another writer who seems to exist between languages. Born in To...
