Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition

Celan, Paul; Translated from the German by Pierre Joris, w/ Commentary by Pierre Joris & Barbara Wiedemann

ISBN 10: 0374603235 / ISBN 13: 9780374603236

Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., New York, 2022

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LYRICAL: REFLECTIVE: PROFOUND: INNOVATIVE: NEW First Trade Paperback Edition (Orig. 2022) First Printing: NEW handsomely-designed-illustrated semi-gloss-laminated gray & white cover, NEW uncreased perfect binding, PRISITNE interior handsomely presented on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.94" x 9.0" x 1.74", 0.88 kg, xxxviii+554 (592) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Memory Rose into Threshold Speech" gathers the poet Paul Celan's first 4 books, written between 1952 & 1963, which established his reputation as a major post-World War II German-language poet. Celan, a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust, created work that displays both great lyric power & an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural & political tendencies. His quest, however, is not only reflective: there is in Celan's writing a profound need & desire to create a new, inhabitable world & a new language for it. In "Memory Rose into Threshold Speech", Celan's reader witnesses his poetry, which starts lush with surrealistic imagery, become gradually pared down; its syntax tightens & his trademark neologisms & word formations increase toward a polysemic language of great accuracy that tries, in the poet's own words, "to measure the area of the given & the possible." Translated by the prize-winning poet & translator Pierre Joris, this bilingual edition follows the 2014 publication of "Breathturn into Timestead", Celan's collected later poetry. All nine volumes of Celan's poetry are now available in Joris's carefully crafted translations, accompanied here by a new introduction, as well as extensive commentary by Joris & Barbara Wiedemann. The 4 volumes gathered into this edition show the flowering of one of the major literary figures of the last century. This volume collects Celan's first four books: "Mohn und Gedächtnis" (Poppy & Memory), "Von Schwelle zu Schwelle" (Threshold to Threshold), "Sprachgitter" (Speechgrille), & "Die Niemandsrose" (NoOnesRose). * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: PAUL CELAN was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1920, & is widely considered to be one of the most innovative poets of the 20th century. A German-speaking Jew, he was sent to a forced labor camp during World War II. Celan settled in Paris in 1948, where he lived & wrote until his death in 1970. His books include "Poppy & Memory" & "From Threshold to Threshold".* SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374603235
• ISBN 13: 9780374603236
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Trade Paperback Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Weight: 0.88 kilograms

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Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as a major post-World War II German-language poet.

Celan, a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust, created work that displays both great lyric power and an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural and political tendencies. His quest, however, is not only reflective: there is in Celan's writing a profound need and desire to create a new, inhabitable world and a new language for it. In Memory Rose into Threshold Speech, Celan’s reader witnesses his poetry, which starts lush with surrealistic imagery, become gradually pared down; its syntax tightens and his trademark neologisms and word formations increase toward a polysemic language of great accuracy that tries, in the poet's own words, "to measure the area of the given and the possible."

Translated by the prize-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris, this bilingual edition follows the 2014 publication of Breathturn into Timestead, Celan's collected later poetry. All nine volumes of Celan's poetry are now available in Joris's carefully crafted translations, accompanied here by a new introduction, as well as extensive commentary by Joris and Barbara Wiedemann. The four volumes in this edition show the flowering of one of the major literary figures of the last century.

This volume collects Celan’s first four books: Mohn und Gedächtnis (Poppy and Memory), Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (Threshold to Threshold), Sprachgitter (Speechgrille), and Die Niemandsrose (NoOnesRose).

About the Author

Paul Celan was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1920, and is widely considered to be one of the most innovative poets of the twentieth century. A German-speaking Jew, he was sent to a forced labor camp during World War II. Celan settled in Paris in 1948, where he lived and wrote until his death in 1970. His books include Poppy and Memory and From Threshold to Threshold.