Blogs about: Paul Celan
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every poem must open itself to the possibility that it will no longer be a poem
wehavetobehavetobeerrant wrote 2 weeks ago: Mais avec Baudelaire, la poésie française… s’impose comme la poésie meme de la modernité. But with B … more →
Jeremy Prynne and Geoffrey Hill compare and contrast
bebrowed wrote 2 weeks ago: Prynne and Hill have many things in common, both have taught at Cambridge, Hill is only four years o … more →
und was mache Ich jetzt?
mconrsullivan wrote 1 month ago: oh lordy, have you seen and used Google translate? you can upload or paste entire documents into it … more →
Lestrange
I, Enoch wrote 1 month ago: Etchings by Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, partner of the poet Paul Celan. {Source: the but does it float b … more →
From Nobodaddy to No One
Marc wrote 1 month ago: It has been observed in the comments of this blog that William Blake was perhaps not an atheist. Tha … more →
under the dome
pensum wrote 2 months ago: I run into Andreï Tarkovski alone in the salon of the Hotel San Domenico. The curtains are drawn. Th … more →
Paul Celan--"Was uns ... " / "What tossed us ..."
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matt wrote 2 months ago: Was uns zusammenwarf, schrickt auseinander, ein Weltstein, sonnenfern, summt. –Paul Celan What … more →
Translating Paul Celan
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poetryinternational wrote 3 months ago: How can one translate something that is untranslatable? Paul Celan has often been accused of being … more →
More from PI 13/14
poetryinternational wrote 4 months ago: Here’s a second helping from the prodigious new double issue of Poetry International 13/14. T … more →
The Goodness of Art
Laura Macomber wrote 4 months ago: By Laura Macomber I recently wrote a 45-page paper discussing the paradox of cultural elitism in pos … more →
Claiming Paul Celan
bebrowed wrote 4 months ago: I’ve just spent a week or so with ‘Wordtraces’ which was edited by Aris Fioretos a … more →
Paul Celan and the perfect poem
bebrowed wrote 4 months ago: Many, many people have written about Celan but most of it is as ‘difficult’ as the poetr … more →
Quote of the Day
darlingaesthete wrote 4 months ago: Only in one’s mother tongue can one express one’s own truth. In a foreign language, the … more →
A Saturday Afternoon on the Moon
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extrasimile wrote 5 months ago: 1. Again with the tunnel. It’s longer now. I don’t know why. It’s been weeks since we cleared The fe … more →
Geoffrey Hill and language
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bebrowed wrote 5 months ago: This again is an interim report on Hill’s critical writings. It must be said that there are as … more →
Translating Part 2
lettersfromladyn wrote 5 months ago: Description begins with visualization of what you want the reader to experience. It ends with you tr … more →
Where flames a word, Broad Street Review
Kile Smith wrote 5 months ago: Class act Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review, 24 Jun 2009 Donald Nally’s choir, The Crossing, occupies … more →
glass
pensum wrote 5 months ago: The world is of glass. And disappearance is within us. Paul Celan (from Under the Dome: Walks with P … more →
Briefenwechsel
adamcathcart wrote 6 months ago: Last week I attended a reading of the Briefenwechsel, or correspondence, between two of the great Eu … more →
