Comic / Todtnauberg

“Who does not expect the poem, will not recognize it either — ”

“There was talk of your God, I spoke / against him”

Reflections on mystery, translatability, and the limits of the speakable in single Celan poems

Pierre Joris, who has been translating Paul Celan into English for more than 50 years, discusses a life lived with the poet’s work.

Celan came up the mountain to visit the philosopher.

“She feeds me for a long, murky time / her heavy wine and black milk.”

“The leaf is a song in a minor key”