Paul Celan

by Celan, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780520241688
• ISBN10: 0520241681
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

The best introduction to the work of Paul Celan, this anthology offers a broad collection of his writing in unsurpassed English translations along with a wealth of commentaries by major writers and philosophers. The present selection is based on Celan's own 1968 selected poems, though enlarged to include both earlier and later poems, as well as two prose works, The Meridian,Celan's core statement on poetics, and the narrative Conversation in the Mountains.This volume also includes letters to Celan's wife, the artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange; to his friend Erich Einhorn; and to René Char and Jean-Paul Sartre--all appearing here for the first time in English.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "Polysemy without mask"	3	(34)
Key to Translators	37	(4)
POEMS
FROM Romanian Prose Poems (c. 1947)
As Partisan of Erotic Absolutism	41	(1)
FROM Mohn and Gedachtnis/Poppy and Memory (1952)
The Sand from the Urns	42	(1)
In Praise of Remoteness	43	(1)
Corona	44	(2)
Death Fugue	46	(2)
The Jars	48	(1)
Count the Almonds	49	(1)
FROM Von Schwelle zu Schwelle/From Threshold to Threshold (1955)
I Heard It Said	50	(1)
With a Variable Key	51	(1)
Shibboleth	52	(2)
Speak, You Too	54	(2)
The Vintagers	56	(2)
FROM Sprachgitter/Speech-Grille (1959)
Voices	58	(3)
Tenebrae	61	(2)
Speech-Grille	63	(2)
Matière de Bretagne	65	(2)
Stretto	67	(8)
FROM Die Niemandsrose/The Noonesrose (1963)
There Was Earth in Them	75	(1)
Zurich, Zum Storchen	76	(2)
Psalm	78	(1)
Tubingen,Jänner	79	(2)
Alchemical	81	(2)
Radix, Matrix	83	(2)
Blackearth	85	(1)
To One Who Stood at the Door	86	(2)
Mandorla	88	(1)
Siberian	89	(2)
The Syllable Pain	91	(2)
And with the Book from Tarussa	93	(4)
From Atemwende/Breathturn (1967)
You May	97	(1)
In the Rivers	97	(1)
To Stand	97	(1)
Threadsuns	98	(1)
Wordaccretion	98	(1)
Singable Remnant	99	(1)
No Sandart Anymore	100	(1)
Harbor	100	(3)
The Jugglerdrum	103	(1)
In Prague	103	(1)
Ashglory	104	(1)
The Written	105	(1)
Frihed	106	(1)
Solve	107	(1)
Coagula	108	(1)
Once	109	(1)
FROM Fadensonnen/Threadsuns (1968)
Frankfurt, September	110	(1)
Detour-/Maps	111	(1)
Spasms	112	(1)
Pau, Later	112	(1)
The Stallion	113	(1)
Lyon, Les Archers	114	(1)
The Industrious	115	(1)
When I Don't Know, Don't Know	116	(1)
You Were	117	(1)
Line the Wordcaves	117	(1)
Near, in the Aortic Arch	117
Imagine	116	(4)
FROM Lichtzwang/Lightduress (1970)
Soundscraps, Visionscraps	120	(1)
We Already Lay	120	(1)
Contact Mines	121	(1)
Cleared	121	(1)
Once	121	(1)
Two at Brancusi's	122	(1)
Todtnauberg	122	(1)
To a Brother in Asia	123	(1)
Oranienstrasse I	124	(1)
Strew Ocher	124	(1)
Leap Centuries	125	(1)
Trek-Scow-Time	126	(1)
You Be Like You	127	(1)
FROM Schneepart/Snowpart (1971)
[CYCLE 1]
Unwashed, Unpainted	128	(1)
You Lie	129	(1)
Lilac Air	130	(1)
Well-Graves	130	(1)
The Breached Year	131	(1)
Unreadability	131	(1)
Whorish Else	131	(1)
What Sews	132	(1)
I Hear the Axe Has Blossomed	133	(1)
With the Voice of the Fieldmouse	134	(1)
In Lizard	134	(1)
Snowpart	135	(1)
FROM Zeitgehöft/Timehalo (x976)
[CYCLE II: JERUSALEM POEMS]
Almonding You	136	(1)
It Stood	136	(1)
The Swelter	137	(1)
We Who Like the Seaoats Guard	137	(1)
A Ring, for Bowdrawing	138	(1)
The Radiance	138	(1)
Nitidous You	139	(1)
Come	140	(1)
A Bootfull of Brain	140	(1)
The Trumpet's Part	140	(1)
The Poles	141	(1)
The Kingsway	141	(1)
There Also	142	(1)
I Drink Wine	142	(1)
Something Shall Be	143	(1)
Nothingness	143	(1)
In the Bellshape	144	(1)
As I	144	(1)
Strangeness	144	(1)
Illuminated	145
PROSES
Conversation in the Mountains (1959)	149	(5)
The Meridian (1960)	154	(23)
DOCUMENTS
From the Correspondence
Letter #1: To Gisele Celan-Lestrange (1952)	177	(1)
Letter #2: To Gisele Celan-Lestrange (1952)	178	(1)
Letter #3: To Erich Einhorn (1962)	179	(2)
Letter #4: To Erich Einhorn (1962)	181	(2)
Letter #5: To Rene Char (unsent) (1962)	183	(3)
Letter #6: To Jean-Paul Sartre (unsent) (1962)	186	(2)
Letter #7: To Gisele Celan-Lestrange (1965)	188	(3)
Letter #8: To Eric Celan (1968)	191	(2)
Letter #9: From Gisele Celan -Lestrange to Paul (1969)	193	(3)
Letter #10: To Gisele Celan-Lestrange (1970)	196	(1)
Das Stundenglas, tief (facsimile)	197	(1)
Über dich hinaus (facsimile)	198	(1)
Es wird etwas sein, später (facsimile)	199	(4)
ON PAUL CELAN
Paul Celan and Language
Jacques Derrida	203	(2)
Encounters with Paul Celan
E.M. Cioran	205	(4)
For Paul Celan
Andrea Zanzotto	209	(6)
On Paul Celan in Neuchâtel
Friedrich Dürrenmatt	215	(2)
The Memory of Words
Edmond Jabès	217	(8)
Selected Bibliography	225	(4)
Acknowledgments of Permissions	229