{"title":"Paul Celan","description":"Paul Celan was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1920, and is widely considered to be one of the most innovative poets of the twentieth century. A German-speaking Jew, he was sent to a forced labor camp during World War II. Celan settled in Paris in 1948, where he lived and wrote until his suicide in 1970. Pierre Joris has written, edited, and translated more than fifty books, including poetry, essays, translations, and anthologies. Most recently he published Barzakh: Poems 2000-2012, Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj,  and the fourth volume of the anthology Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of North African Literature. In 2005 he received the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his translation of Celan's Lichtzwang \/ Lightduress.","products":[{"product_id":"breathturn-into-timestead-the-collected-later-poetry-a-bilingual-edition-paperback","title":"Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2015 National Translation Award Winner in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new, uncontaminated language and world. \u003ci\u003eBreathturn into Timestead: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCollected Later Poetry \u003c\/i\u003egathers the five final volumes of his life's work in a bilingual edition, translated and with commentary by the award-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis collection displays a mature writer at the height of his talents, following what Celan himself called the \"turn\" (\u003ci\u003eWende)\u003c\/i\u003e of his work away from the lush, surreal metaphors of his earlier verse. Given \"the sinister events in its memory,\" Celan believed that the language of poetry had to become \"more sober, more factual . . . 'grayer.'\" Abandoning the more sumptuous music of the first books, he pared down his compositions to increase the accuracy of the language that now \"does not transfigure or render 'poetical'; it names, it posits, it tries to measure the area of the given and the possible.\" In his need for an inhabitable post-Holocaust world, Celan saw that \"reality is not simply there; it must be searched for and won.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreathturn into Timestead\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a poet undergoing a profound artistic reinvention. The work is that of a witness and a visionary.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376713138399,"sku":"9780374608033","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tWK1Hlwbdu9780374608033.webp?v=1789221761"},{"product_id":"conversation-in-the-mountains-collected-prose-of-paul-celan-paperback","title":"Conversation in the Mountains: Collected Prose of Paul Celan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea where there is much silence and so much happens.\" So begins the first text in this indispensable volume, which includes: \"Edgar Jené and the Dream about the Dream,\" \"Backlight,\" \"The Meridian,\" and the piece which Celan himself deemed his most important, \"Conversation in the Mountains.\" George Steiner wrote in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e that Celan's prose was \"transforming the landscape of poetic theory and of the philosophy of language.\" This collection of essays, speeches, letters, as well as notes on Alexander Blok and Osip Mandelstam is a great gift to readers and to anyone who wishes to understand the twentieth century. As the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer wrote, \"Paul Celan's poems reach us, but we miss them.\" Perhaps through these rare prose texts we may find the key to what we missed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376720838879,"sku":"9780811240529","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/AVP4bVJWeh9780811240529.webp?v=1789221781"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-and-prose-of-paul-celan-paperback","title":"Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote \"Todesfuge\" (\"Deathfugue\"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had \"passed through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech.\" His writing purges and remakes that language, often achieving a hope-struck radiance never before seen in modern poetry. But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine. This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose. All poems appear in the original and in translation on facing pages. John Felstiner's translations stem from a twenty-year immersion in Celan's life and work. John Bayley wrote in the New York Review of Books, \"Felstiner translates ... brilliantly.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378263163103,"sku":"9780393322248","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/8H-HLTEAQQ9780393322248.webp?v=1789250895"},{"product_id":"breathturn-paperback","title":"Breathturn - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA German-English Bilingual Edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBreathturn\u003c\/em\u003e (German: \u003cem\u003eAtemwende\u003c\/em\u003e) is the first of Paul Celan's three major poetry books before his death by suicide in 1970. This book brilliantly reveals the \"Wende\" or turning point of his writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator Pierre Joris won the 2004 PEN Translation Award for Paul Celan's \u003cem\u003eLightduress\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378328568031,"sku":"9780940650039","price":28.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qVi-z6uoPL9780940650039.webp?v=1789254412"},{"product_id":"memory-rose-into-threshold-speech-the-collected-earlier-poetry-a-bilingual-edition-paperback","title":"Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemory Rose into Threshold Speech \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003egathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as a major post-World War II German-language poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelan, a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust, created work that displays both great lyric power and an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural and political tendencies. His quest, however, is not only reflective: there is in Celan's writing a profound need and desire to create a new, inhabitable world and a new language for it. In \u003ci\u003eMemory Rose into Threshold Speech\u003c\/i\u003e, Celan's reader witnesses his poetry, which starts lush with surrealistic imagery, become gradually pared down; its syntax tightens and his trademark neologisms and word formations increase toward a polysemic language of great accuracy that tries, in the poet's own words, \"to measure the area of the given and the possible.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by the prize-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris, this bilingual edition follows the 2014 publication of \u003ci\u003eBreathturn into Timestead\u003c\/i\u003e, Celan's collected later poetry. All nine volumes of Celan's poetry are now available in Joris's carefully crafted translations, accompanied here by a new introduction, as well as extensive commentary by Joris and Barbara Wiedemann. The four volumes in this edition show the flowering of one of the major literary figures of the last century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume collects Celan's first four books: \u003ci\u003eMohn und Gedächtnis (Poppy and Memory)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVon \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchwelle zu Schwelle (Threshold to Threshold)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSprachgitter (Speechgrille)\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDie Niemandsrose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e (NoOnesRose)\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378344591583,"sku":"9780374603236","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SC8zaStTcDNZTEhyNHEzYkhNeFlMUT09.webp?v=1789254453"},{"product_id":"language-behind-bars-paperback","title":"Language Behind Bars - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelan's English language readers, and readers to come, will be deeply grateful for this new translation of his third book. I admire David Young's clear and respectful introduction, generous to his colleagues in Celan translation, and helpful in providing a broad context for this poetry; and I admire, especially, his faithfulness in spirit as he becomes a \"water-diviner\" of Celan's work. Young is a subtle, trusting reader of the ways this poet of poets took - as he had to - to create a completely new poetry. - Jean Valentine\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378346787039,"sku":"9781934851487","price":21.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hRRHCmsPTA9781934851487.webp?v=1789254459"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/paul-celan.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}