About the Author

Paul Celan (1920-1970) was a Romanian-born German language poet and translator.

Reviews

"Celan pushes language to the limits of expressiveness in these groping, incantatory pieces."--Publisher's Weekly

"The slimness of the book tells its own story of Celan's love affair with silence . . . [Waldrop's English] has an idiomatic adroitness that catches the pauses and suspensions in Celan's breath [and] directs us to a sense of a more reserved, hidden-hearted poet." --Choice