[New-Poetry] Paul Celan

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Any Paul Celan fans out there? I just got a book of his German poems translated by Michael Hamburger. The introduction was both fascinating and saddening. He was persecuted by the Nazis but survived the Shoah, yet his parents died in the extermination camps. This left an indelible mark of tragedy on him and he committed suicide at age 49 in 1970. His poems feature fragmentation and neologisms but are very evocative. I've just started studying them. He was an extremely gifted poet, multilingual and well published in his own time.
Richard

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