[New-Poetry] Paul Celan

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You can watch a video of Galway Kinnell giving a powerful reading of Celan's
incredible poem "Fugue of Death" at Split This Rock Poetry Festival in March
here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDpaNLaBt0I. 

 

Read the poem here: http://www.artofeurope.com/celan/cel8.htm

 

 

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Sarah Browning

Director

Split This Rock Poetry Festival

c/o Institute for Policy Studies

1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600

Washington, DC 20036

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202-787-5210

 

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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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