Description Here are the long overdue translations of Paul Celan\'s Romanian Poems (one poem dated 1947) by a great poet, Nina Cassian: they contain the buds, bloom, and deathly flowering of the obsessions found in all of Celan\'s work--death, drowning, deportation, love, pride, loneliness, the magic of language.
Letter from Paul Celan to Nina Cassian, 194.
The book also includes important Essays by Nina Cassian, on Celan\'s early life and work, and post-WWII Bucharest and Paris.
Description Here are the long overdue translations of Paul Celan\'s Romanian Poems (one poem dated 1947) by a great poet, Nina Cassian: they contain the buds, bloom, and deathly flowering of the obsessions found in all of Celan\'s work--death, drowning, deportation, love, pride, loneliness, the magic of language
