Tagged: Paul Celan

It’s Out!

You can get it here & here. Blurbs for Meridian: Over the last half century Paul Celan has emerged as the iconic poet of the postwar/post-Holocaust period—for some of us the greatest German-language poet...

Paul Celan in North London

The BBC has just broadcast a 30 minute segment by Toby Litt who investigates what brought the poet Paul Celan to an ordinary North London street in the late 1960s, and why he chose...

Meridian Czernowitz

From the Ukarainian paper The Day, here the opening paras of an article on the Czernowitz / Chernivtsi Poetry Festival in honor of Paul Celan: Chernivtsi’s poetic meridian By Maria TOMAK, The Day “Chernivtsi,...

The Meridian—Paul Celan

While spending much of the weekend correcting the page proofs of my translation of Paul Celan—The Meridian: Final Version-Drafts-Materials forthcoming in the eponymous collection directed by Werner Hamacher at Stanford University Press, I noticed...

A Celan Poem

For the pleasure of this cold, clear Monday morning, the poem “Mit allen Gedanken” by Paul Celan from his volume Die Niemandsrose. It has been my pleasure to spend some time with this work...

On Banat Literature

An interesting essay on minority writers (specifically Romanian-German writers) by Richard Wagner, originally from Romania, now living in Berlin, and once married to Herta Mueller, in today’s  Neue Züricher Zeitung (German article complete, here)....