Paul Celan: Line the Word Caves
November 23 is the birthday of Paul Celan — the birthyear is 1920. Here, in memory of that day, a poem from his volume Threadsuns in my translation. It is one of Celan’s more programmatic poems, speaking as it does to his writing in the later years, starting with Breathturn.
LINE THE WORDCAVES
with panther skins,widen them, hide-to and hide-fro,
sense-hither and sense-thither,give them courtyards, chambers, drop doors
and wildnesses, parietal,and listen for their second
and each time second and second
tone.
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And Harpo Marx, as well.