Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan.

Poetry | September 1, 2001| | Copyright

Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan. Tr. by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh. Wesleyan University Press. $24.95.

When Paul Celan (1920-1970) committed suicide, he probably jumped off the Pont Mirabeau, the Parisian bridge to which one of his favorite poets, Apollinaire, had devoted a particularly melodious, melancholy love poem. "Et comme l'Esperance est violente," observes Apollinaire in "Le Pont Mirabeau," "And how Hope is violent." The line sums up Celan's own troubled life, his bleak, yearning poetry, perhaps also his desperate attempts to break out of his ...

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