Selected poems

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One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. In his verse he sought to express 'not only what the experience felt like, but also a sense of living, with comprehension, inside the experience'. This title is winner of the first European translation prize. Contents......Page 5 Introduction......Page 9 from Mohnund Gedächtnis (1952......Page 21 Tallow Lamp......Page 22 Your Hand Full of Hours......Page 23 Aspen Tree. . .......Page 24 Sand from the Urns......Page 25 In the Cherry-Tree's Branches.........Page 26 Memory of France......Page 27 Chanson of a Lady in the Shade......Page 28 Night Ray......Page 30 The Years from You to Me......Page 31 Corona......Page 32 Fugue of Death......Page 33 Crystal......Page 35 The jugs......Page 36 from Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (1955......Page 37 From Darkness to Darkness......Page 38 With a Variable Key......Page 39 In Memoriam Paul Eluard......Page 40 Shibboleth......Page 41 Speak, You Also......Page 43 from Sprachgitter(1959......Page 45 Homecoming......Page 46 Below......Page 47 Tenebrae......Page 48 Flower......Page 49 Language Mesh......Page 50 Night......Page 51 Matiere de Bretagne......Page 52 All Souls......Page 54 Draft of a Landscape......Page 55 An Eye, Open......Page 56 The Straitening......Page 57 from Die Niemandsrose (1963)......Page 65 There was Earth......Page 66 Zürich,the Stork Inn......Page 67 So Many Constellations......Page 68 Dumb Autumn Smells......Page 69 Psalm......Page 70 Alchemical......Page 71 . . . Plashes the Fountain......Page 73 Radix, Matrix......Page 74 Afternoon with a Circus and Citadel......Page 76 In the Daytime......Page 77 Crowned Out . . .......Page 78 from Atemwende (1967......Page 81 To Stand. . .......Page 82 Thread Suns......Page 83 Etched Away From......Page 84 On the White Philactery......Page 85 Go Blind Now......Page 86 In Prague......Page 87 Once......Page 88 from Fadensonnen(1968)......Page 89 You Were My Death......Page 90 To My Right......Page 91 Irish......Page 92 Dew. . .......Page 93 Powers. Dominions.......Page 94 Think of It......Page 95 from Lichtzwang (1970)......Page 97 Night Rode Him......Page 98 I Can Still See You......Page 99 Wide-Open Tomorrow......Page 100 Sprinkle Ochre into My Eyes......Page 101 Leap-Centuries......Page 102 from Schneepart (1971)......Page 103 The Broached Year......Page 104 Illegibility......Page 105 I Hear that the Axe has Flowered......Page 106 Largo......Page 107 A Leaf, Treeless......Page 108