Glottal Stop: 101 Poems

Author

Paul Celan

Original Work

Collected Works in Five Volumes

Translators

Nikolai Popov·Heather McHugh

Language

English

Year

2004

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Country

United States

Pages

168

ISBN

9780819567208

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Rich new translations of one of the most important poets of our time. Winner of the Griffin Prize for Poetry (2001) Paul Celan s widely recognized as the greatest and most studied post-war European poet. At once demanding and highly rewarding, his poetry dominates the field in the aftermath of the Holocaust. This selection of poems, now available in paper for the first time, is comprised of previously untranslated work, opening facets of Celan's oeuvre never before available to readers of English. These translations, called "perfect in language, music, and spirit" by Yehuda Amichai, work from the implied premise of what has been called Intention auf die Sprache, delivering the spirit of Celan's work—his dense multilingual resonances, his brutal broken music, syntactic ruptures and dizzying wordplay.— Google Books