Paul Celan, Author, Nikolai Popov, Translator, Heather McHugh, Translator Wesleyan University Press $24.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-8195-6448-1 Though fluent in a number of languages, Celan (1920-1970), who ...

“Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, A Bilingual Edition” by Paul Celan, translated and with commentary by Pierre Joris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 736 pages, $40) How do you make ...

Biographers have a vested interest in hyping their subjects, but when Paul Celan’s biographer, John Felstiner, calls the latter “Europe’s most compelling postwar poet,” surely few can argue. Like most ...

The Suhrkamp Verlag series of the great Romanian-born Jewish poet Paul Celan’s letters has received worldwide attention. Among the avid readers was an 81-year-old Austrian-born historian of ...

Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems. By Adrian Nathan West Adrian Nathan West is the author of the novel “My Father’s Diet” and a ...

Once, while reading the poetry of Paul Celan, I had an experience I can describe only as mystical. It was about twenty years ago, and I was working at a job that required me to stay very late one or ...

At the request of French President Macron, artist Anselm Kiefer is showing monumental works honoring Paul Celan's poetry at the Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris. The French love him, and he loves the ...

Author Paul Celan was born 100 years ago. As one of the most influential postwar German-language poets, his works remain more relevant than ever. "Black milk of morning we drink you evenings / we ...

"There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing," Paul Celan once remarked, "not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German." Celan was determined to redeem the ...

A notable poet in his own right, he was best known for rendering into English the words of a poet who reacted to the Holocaust by inventing a new version of German. By Adam Nossiter Pierre Joris, a ...