Poems of Paul Celan Hardcover by Paul Celan and Michael Hamburger

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2019-06-18)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 0 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780892552757
• Item Weight: 552.83 grams
• Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.16 cm

The peerless translations of this hauntedand hauntingHolocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. Paul Celan is one the twentieth century's most essential poets, and twenty-two years after its publication, Poems of Paul Celan continues to be the single truest access for English-speakers to this poet's work. This new edition adds ten more poems and a significant essay, "On Translating Celan" by Michael Hamburger.

About the Author

Paul Celan was a poet and translator born in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote the poem "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), which depicted life in a German concentration camp.

Michael Hamburger (1924-2007) wrote many collections of poetry and criticism. Other notable translations include Baudelaire's Twenty Prose Poems. He received the European Translation Prize for Poems of Paul Celan.