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Three Poems
“The leaf is a song in a minor key”
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger June 7, 2021
To Life
“She feeds me for a long, murky time / her heavy wine and black milk.”
Rose Ausländer June 7, 2021
Todtnauberg
Celan came up the mountain to visit the philosopher.
Anne Carson June 7, 2021
Excerpts from Memory Rose into Threshold Speech
“There was talk of your God, I spoke
/ against him”
Paul Celan June 7, 2021
Excerpts from Microliths They Are, Little Stones
“Who does not expect the poem, will not recognize it either — ”
Paul Celan June 7, 2021
Meditations on Celan
Reflections on mystery, translatability, and the limits of the speakable in single Celan poems
Chase Berggrun, Aria Aber, Michael Hofmann, and Peter Cole June 7, 2021
Celan’s Ferryman
Pierre Joris, who has been translating Paul Celan into English for more than 50 years, discusses a life lived with the poet’s work.
Fanny Howe June 7, 2021
When “Antifa” Is the Enemy
A new group calling itself “Jewish-Israeli Dissent” is challenging the German left’s unbridled support for Israeli government policies.
Isabel Frey June 3, 2021