Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Paul Celan Centennial Poem in Poem-a-Day

https://poets.org/poem/so-many-constellations 


     Holocaust survivor Paul Celan (born 11/20/1930) committed suicide a year before I started studying German at Penn State. I remember reading about him in my Gruppe 47 book in my sophomore year. The curriculum did not include living or recently-deceased writers/poets, sad to say.

     Since I became an official poet (it sounds better than it looks), I have come across his work and have resolved to read more of it.


   

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