6/12/2023 0 Comments Celan poet![]() ![]() Celan wrote in German-a tongue to which he felt inextricably and complicatedly bound, both because of his mother’s love for the language and because of its relationship to Nazi violence. That same year, he published his first book of poems, Der Sand aus den Urnen ( The Sand from the Urns). In the last years of the war, Celan moved to Bucharest, then Vienna, before settling in Paris in 1948. These experiences, especially the murder of his mother, cast a long shadow over the rest of his life, and deeply informed his poetics. In 1942, his parents were taken to a Nazi concentration camp, where they both died Celan himself survived eighteen months in a labor camp. Celan-born Paul Antschel in Czernowitz, Romania (now part of Ukraine) in 1920-lived a life scarred by personal and historical tragedy. LAST YEAR marked the centennial of the birth of Paul Celan, who wrote some of the most potent and haunting poetry of the 20th century. ![]()
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