Verse From the Abyss
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Paul Celan: A Life by Anna Arno, translated by Soren Gauger; Belknap Press, 416pp., $35
Paul Celan, perhaps foremost among postwar German-language poets, was born in 1920 in the Romanian city of Cernăuți and died in Paris 50 years later. His was not a long life, though other poets whose work continues to fascinate scholars and readers alike—John Keats, Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, to name a few—died even younger. That most of those readers who sing Celan’s praises encounter his work in translat
Paul Celan, perhaps foremost among postwar German-language poets, was born in 1920 in the Romanian city of Cernăuți and died in Paris 50 years later. His was not a long life, though other poets whose work continues to fascinate scholars and readers alike—John Keats, Arthur Rimbaud, Sylvia Plath, to name a few—died even younger. That most of those readers who sing Celan’s praises encounter his work in translat
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