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A triptych for Paul Celan
Magazine article from: Judaism; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...JOHN FELSTINER. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Paul Celan /Nelly Sachs: Correspondence, translated by CHRISTOPHER...BERNHARD FRANK Viewed through the wrong end of the telescope Paul Celan is that Romanian-Jewish poet who, though serving in...drowning in the Seine. Israel Chalfen's invaluable book, ...
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And how Hope is violent: The poetry of Paul Celan
Magazine article from: Poetry; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. Tr. by John Felstiner. Bilingual text. Norton. $29.95. Threadsuns, by Paul Celan. Tr. by Pierre Joris. Bilingual text. Sun & Moon Press. $13.95. Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan. Tr. by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh. Wesleyan University Press. $24.95. When ...
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THE TRAVELER; YIDDISH TRAVEL WRITING, PART III: WHEN WHITENESS ATTACKED US; Finding Poetry in the Landscape Of Paul Celan's Bukovina
Newspaper article from: Forward; 2/6/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...pilgrimage in Prague, the city in which I now live, evoked by Paul Celan in his poem "In Prague": bone-Hebrew ground into sperm...mounting snow. Heading toward Ukraine, to the hometown of Paul Celan, the most meticulously transcendent of 20th-century...whiteness attacked us"). When he lived here in Bukovina, he ...
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Celan, the poet of painful Yahrzeit.(Paul Celan)
Magazine article from: Midstream; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...rather tortured German. Felstiner's critical biography, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor Jew, originally published in 1995...Celan and his translations, Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Norton, 2001), I have been including a poem or two...Felstiner's ground-breaking work will begin to erode that neglect. ...
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From "The Relief".(Poem)
Magazine article from: Prairie Schooner; 12/22/2006; ; 652 words
; Czernowitz Paul Celan (Paul Antschel, 1920-1970) was born in Romanian Cernauti, formerly Czernowitz...strasse of a hundred years ago. Who was N. Pryboya? I believe Antschel would remember the name of the strasse and you outside my kitchen...
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Glottal Stop
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 12/12/2000; ; 441 words
; GLOTTAL STOP By Paul Celan, translated by Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh University Press of New England. 192 pp., $24.95 Paul Antschel, later Ancel and later still Celan, was born in 1920 to a German Jewish family in Romania. In 1942, his parents...
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Speaking Volumes: Black Milk of Daybreak; How one poem affected survivors and the world
Newspaper article from: Jewish Exponent; 1/18/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...of Daybreak; How one poem affected survivors and the world Paul Celan, like Tadeusz Borowski before him and Primo Levi after...far eastern edge of the old Austro-Hungarian em-pire. Named Paul Antschel by his German-speaking Jewish parents, Celan was exposed to...massive dual-language collection, Selected ...
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BOOK REVIEW / The long shadow of almonds
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/18/1995; ; 637 words
; ...all of which terms have been applied to the writing of Paul Celan. Such attributes were destined not to endear him to the...Celan's presence from the nooks and crannies of his poems. Born Paul Antschel in 1920, Celan saw his home province of Bukovina in the Austro-Hungari...
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The Silence Between the Words
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/6/1995; ; 700+ words
; PAUL CELAN Poet, Survivor, Jew By John Felstiner Yale University...critics, the redoubtable George Steiner chief among them, Paul Celan (1920-1970) is the finest post-war European poet. For...beloved and forever lost human presence. John Felstiner's Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew takes the form of a ...
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Poet's Choice
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/21/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...survived the war and enjoyed major recognition as writers: Paul Celan received the prestigious Georg Bchner Prize in 1960...they referred to each other as "Sister Nelly" and "Brother Paul" during a 16-year correspondence which became, in the words...More on Nelly Sachs next week; today I'd like to introduce ...
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