Paul Celan
Birth date: November 23, 1920
Died: April 20, 1970
Paul Celan's Books
Published 2014 One day I got to my class and after 10 minutes without other classmates arriving, my teacher Winfred Scheulen and I agreed to talk about anything worth our fancy. Being Poetry one of my long-term interests, I asked him who his favourite poet in the German Language was. I was expec...
About one thousand pages of Celan’s poetry. I’m in for a treat… This's my first all-encompassing collected edition of Celan's poetry. When reading Celan’s poetry I always compare him with Berthold Brecht, whose poetry of social and political comment was much more clear-cut.Celan’s poetry is always o...
Paul Celan stands among the most powerful poets. His poems are distilled and piercing, usually compact yet heavy constructions of well chosen words. Most poetry readers know his story. Born in eastern Europe to Jewish, German-speaking parents, he lost his parents to Nazi criminals, as well as any se...
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