As I am going over \/ completing \/ revising my Paul Celan translations, I find here & there among the posthumous volumes a few poems I hadn’t translated so far. Here is one of these \u2014 the one that opens the third cycle of SNOWPART. It was written on 19 & 20 March 1968, just after Celan’s first meeting with his wife Gis\u00e8le since there separation in April 1967.<\/p>\n
Why this brusque at-homeness<\/strong>, out midst,\u00a0in midst? Throw your tropes someone someone who stabbed himself into someone, he was the one closest to you, someone adorns your sex maybe <\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Warum dieses j\u00e4he Zuhause<\/strong>, mittenaus, mittenein? Wirf deine Tropen einer einer, der sich in dich stach, einer, er war dir der n\u00e4chste, einer schm\u00fcckt dein Geschlecht vielleicht <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I am going over \/ completing \/ revising my Paul Celan translations, I find here & there among the posthumous volumes a few poems I hadn’t translated so far. Here is one of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,103],"tags":[1730],"class_list":["post-8619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-translation","tag-paul-celan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619","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=8619"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8625,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619\/revisions\/8625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI can, look, sink myself into you, glacier-like,
\nyou yourself slay your brothers:
\nearlier than they
\nI was with you, Snowed One.<\/p>\n
\nin with the rest:
\nSomeone wants to know,
\nwhy with God I
\nwas no different than with you,<\/p>\n
\nwants to drown in that,
\ntwo books instead of lungs,<\/p>\n
\nyou, bebreathes the cut,<\/p>\n
\ngets lost to himself,<\/p>\n
\nwith your and his betrayal<\/p>\n
\nI\u00a0was both<\/p>\n
\nIch kann mich, schau, in dich senken, gletschrig,
\ndu selbst erschl\u00e4gst deine Br\u00fcder:
\neher als sie
\nwar ich bei dir, Geschneete.<\/p>\n
\nzum Rest:
\neiner will wissen,
\nwarum ich bei Gott
\nnicht anders war als bei dir,<\/p>\n
\nwill drin ersaufen,
\nzwei B\u00fccher an Stelle der Lungen,<\/p>\n
\nbeatmet den Stich,<\/p>\n
\ngeht sich verloren,<\/p>\n
\nmit deinem und seinem Verrat,<\/p>\n
\nwar ich jeder<\/p>\n