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| Genre/Form: | Poetry German poetry Translations Translations into English |
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| Named Person: | Paul Celan; Paul Celan |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Celan; Nikolai Popov; Heather McHugh |
| ISBN: | 0819564486 9780819564481 0819567205 9780819567208 |
| OCLC Number: | 43953890 |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Notes: | Poems originally published in German in the author's Gesammelte Werke or in Eingedunkelt und Gedichte aus dem Umkreis von Eingedunkelt. Frankfurt-am-Main : Suhrkamp Verlag, 1983, 1991. |
| Awards: | Washington State Book Award, 2001. |
| Description: | xviii, 146 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents: | Glottal stop. Voices, scored into -- Summer Report -- With wine and being lost, with -- Threesome, Foursome -- Erratic -- Hand- -- To one how stood outside to door, one -- Flung wood -- How low could it go, my once immortal word -- Pain, the Syllable -- La Contrescarpe -- Floated down blackwater rapids -- Gray-white of sheer -- (I know you: you're the one who's bent so low) -- Singable remainder -- trace -- Flooding, big -- Go blind at once, today -- Ring-narrowing Day under -- At high noon, in -- The hourglass buried -- Behind the charcoal surfaces of sleep -- Go back and add up -- Half-mauled, mask- -- From fists white with the truth -- Noisemakers shoot into the light: it's the Truth -- You forget you forget -- Crackpots, decomposing -- Lichtenberg's heir- -- The sight of the songbirds at dusk -- Gurgling, then -- Frankfurt, September -- Coincidence staged, the signs all -- Who -- Spasms, I love you, psalms -- Night in Pau -- Later in Pau -- The ounce of truth in the depths of delusion -- Lyon, Les Archers -- Sleep-pieces, wedges -- Attached to out-cast -- Graygreens -- Chitin sunlings -- Eternities dead -- Hothouse of an asylum -- Lucky, the -- On the rainsoaked rutted road -- White noises, bundled -- Your heart manholed -- Here are the industrious -- When I don't know, when I don't know -- Gigantic -- Day freed from demons -- Husks of the finite, stretchable -- Wet from the world -- Hush, you hag, and ferry me across the rapids -- Eyeshot's island, broken Eternity gets older: at -- It's late. A fat fetish -- Come, we are cutting out -- Free of dross, free of dross -- Soul-blind behind the ashes -- Next-door-neighbor Night -- The ropes, stiff with salt water -- Out of angel flesh, on -- Upholster the word-hollows -- Walls of speech, space inwards -- Four ells of earth -- Naked under death leaves -- Stone of incest, rolled away -- As loud colors, heaped up -- The chimney-swallow, sister -- White, white, white -- Haut Mal -- The golfball growth -- Windfield bound for winter: this -- Who stood that round? -- Audio-visual vestiges in -- Knock out -- Eternities swept -- She of the freckled farewells -- Degenerate -- Assembly- -- Weather hand -- Nightsources, distant -- Unwashed, unpainted -- Lilac twilight daubed with yellow windows -- You with the dark slingshot -- I gave a chance -- Proverb on the Wall -- The aural apparatus drives a flower -- Open glottis, air flow -- Raised bog, the shape of -- Particles, patriarchs, buried -- And force and pain -- A reading branch, just one -- The cables have already been laid -- The splintering echo, darkened -- Nowhere, with its silken veil -- In the most remote of -- O little root of a dream -- Don't sign your name -- Index of English Titles/First Lines and German Titles/Half-Titles. |
| Series Title: | Wesleyan poetry. |
| Other Titles: | Poems. |
| Responsibility: | by Paul Celan ; translated by Nikolai Popov & Heather McHugh. |
Abstract:
Rich new translations of one of the most important poets of our time.
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"In 'Glottal Stop, ' the translators...take greater risks...but the poetic rewards are...at times breathtaking. One senses the originality of Celan's language in an English that is resourceful and adventurous, not strained. Language comes alive on the page as both vision and sound..." -- Mark M. Anderson, The New York Times Book Review Read more...
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