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Offers an introduction to the German poet's life and work and presents in English translation and the original German, his poems about consciousness, mortality, and love
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Celan's poetry reflects the emotional and spiritual scars he suffered at the Nazis' hands. After both his parents were murdered in concentration camps, he spent World War II in a forced labor camp; he died a suicide in Paris in 1970. Taken from his last three verse collections published in Germany, Last Poems contains short, fragmentary, free-verse explorations of a semiabstract universe in which a shattered soul confronts sounds, violent motions, stones, empty space. "In the gap of the calendar/ the newborn/ Nothing/ rocks him, rocks him." Memories of his Holocaust experiences are embedded like bullets in stained glass. Even when Celan does not deal directly with the Nazi years, the pressure of the past weighs heavily; he warns a crocus, "You need every blade." The translators' use of a plethora of compound words (pre-flood, hatchet-swarms) to cope with Celan's German coinages is understandable but not always effective. A critical apparatus would have been helpful. Most of the poems in this bilingual edition have never before been translated into English.
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- PublisherNorth Point Pr
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0865472238
- ISBN 13 9780865472235
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages211
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Dark grey cloth. xliv, 212pp. A selection in parallel English and German of ninety-nine poems from the three posthumous volumes 'Force of Light', 'Snow-Part', and 'Farmstead of Time', plus the prose piece 'Conversation in the Mountains', in which the poet elaborates on his objectives. With a back cover quotation by Michael Palmer: 'I don't know of any humanly more important work than these late poems of Celan. They represent nothing less than the recovery of a language from its destruction by fire.' Slightly dusty and spotted to the edges, but Very Good in about like jacket, if a little dust-dulled/shelfworn, the white areas moderately toned and occasionally spotted/marked, the spine ends bumped, though generally crisp. Loosely inserted (in addition to a flyer from the publisher) are two autograph notes signed ('Gisele') from Celan's wife, Gisele Celan-Lestrange, to Tom (Raworth), both dated to September of the year of publication, the initial one enclosing the book. Signed. Seller Inventory # 008569
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