Description
Rich new translations of one of the most important poets of our time.
Winner of the Griffin Prize for Poetry (2001)
Paul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This selection of poems, now available in paper for the first time, is comprised of previously untranslated work, opening facets of Celan's oeuvre never before available to readers of English. These translations, called perfect in language, music, and spirit by Yehuda Amichai, work from the implied premise of what has been called Intention auf die Sprache, delivering the spirit of Celan's work--his dense multilingual resonances, his brutal broken music, syntactic ruptures and dizzying wordplay.
Author: Paul Celan
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 02/25/2004
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.25w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780819567208
ISBN10: 0819567205
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
- Literary Criticism | European | German
Winner of the Griffin Prize for Poetry (2001)
Paul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This selection of poems, now available in paper for the first time, is comprised of previously untranslated work, opening facets of Celan's oeuvre never before available to readers of English. These translations, called perfect in language, music, and spirit by Yehuda Amichai, work from the implied premise of what has been called Intention auf die Sprache, delivering the spirit of Celan's work--his dense multilingual resonances, his brutal broken music, syntactic ruptures and dizzying wordplay.
Author: Paul Celan
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 02/25/2004
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.25w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780819567208
ISBN10: 0819567205
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | General
- Literary Criticism | European | German
About the Author
NIKOLAI POPOV teaches English at the University of Washington in Seattle. A James Joyce scholar and translator, he also co-translated with Heather McHugh a collection of the poems of Blaga Dimitrova (Wesleyan, 1989). HEATHER MCHUGH is Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. In addition to seven acclaimed books of poetry and the collection of essays Broken English: Poetry and Partiality (Wesleyan, 1994), she has translated poems by Jean Follain and Euripides' Cyclops.
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