{"id":12659,"date":"2014-12-31T18:40:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=12659"},"modified":"2014-12-31T18:40:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:40:40","slug":"chicago-tribune-review-of-breathturn-into-timestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/chicago-tribune-review-of-breathturn-into-timestead\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Tribune Review of &#8220;Breathturn into Timestead&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"trb_article_articleHeader\" data-sharelines=\"\">\n<div class=\"trb_article_articleHeader_head\">\n<div class=\"trb_bylines\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"trb_article_articleHeader_head\">\n<div class=\"trb_bylines\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paul-celan-jpg-20141231-e1420065467795.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12660 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/paul-celan-jpg-20141231-e1420065467795.jpeg\" alt=\"paul-celan-jpg-20141231\" width=\"490\" height=\"276\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 490px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 490\/276;\" \/><\/a>12\/31\/2014<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_bylines\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_bylines\"><span class=\"trb_bylines_name_primary\"><span class=\"trb_bylines_name_author\"><span class=\"trb_bylines_name_author_by\">By <\/span>Shoshana Olidort<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trb_sharelines\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"trb_article_relatedTopics\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li class=\"trb_article_relatedTopics_li\">The last five poetry volumes of Paul Celan are collected in \u201cBreathturn Into Timestead\u201d (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"trb_article_dateline\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"trb_mainContent\" data-role=\"panelmod_articleBody\">\n<div data-role=\"panelmod_articleBodyParagraphs\">\n<div class=\"trb_article_page\" data-role=\"pagination_page\" data-content-page=\"1\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The poem, Paul Celan once said, \u201cis lonely,\u201d and in its loneliness it reaches outward, \u201cintends another \u2026 goes toward it.\u201d In this way, Celan went on to explain, the poem creates the possibility for an encounter with the reader, for being heard and understood. One of the most revered and prolific European poets of the 20th century, Celan, born Paul Antschel in 1920 in Czernowitz, held out hope for that possibility of meaningful contact and communication through poetry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBreathturn Into Timestead,\u201d a bilingual compilation of the poet\u2019s five final volumes with translation and commentary by Pierre Joris, shows how Celan\u2019s later, more obscure poetry continues to engender that kind of hope for connection, even while recognizing the very limits of poetry, of the German language, of words themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his illuminating introduction Joris points to an untitled poem, which begins: \u201cLine the wordcaves \/ with panther skins\u201d and suggests that the word, like the cave, is \u201chollow \u2026 a formation with its own internal complexities and crevasses,\u201d and thus must be toyed with, reworked, reimagined, if it is to be meaningful at all. Put differently, and in Celan\u2019s own language, poetry must be subjected to the \u201cradical putting-into-question of art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(\u2026 ctd. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/lifestyles\/books\/ct-prj-breathturn-into-timestead-paul-celan-20141231-story.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/31\/2014 By Shoshana Olidort The last five poetry volumes of Paul Celan are collected in \u201cBreathturn Into Timestead\u201d (Farrar, Straus &#038; Giroux) The poem, Paul Celan once said, \u201cis lonely,\u201d and in its loneliness&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1730],"class_list":["post-12659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-paul-celan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12663,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions\/12663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}