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...Benjamin Friedlander Abstract This essay explores connections between the poetries of Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan, narrating a series of encounters with their work so as to show how history shapes interpretation. The essay also explores the role of reading in personal growth and interpersonal...

...Christine Frank Abstract Pierre Joris is one of the most distinguished translators of the poetry of Paul Celan into English. He is the only person to have translated Celan's complete poetic works and prose over the course of more than fifty years, creating a life's work. His translations, begun...

...Pierre Joris Abstract Reflecting on a question posed to the author by the poet Gerrit Lansing concerning a possible soteriological dimension of Paul Celan's thought, this essay argues for Celan as a radically secular figure—revolutionary both politically and poetically—whose Jewishness...

...Austin Carder Abstract Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose (2020) represents the culmination of Pierre Joris's fifty‐year effort of translating the work of Paul Celan into English. The book contains a small library: aphorisms, fiction, dialogues and notes for dramatic works...

... of Paul Celan. 1 It is a question that draws on, or rather, that is drawn from a poem by Paul Celan, though Celan, in those lines, does not phrase these matters as a question, and that clearly puts my own question into question. Celan, when he brings up the matter of the “witness” in the poem beginning...

...Raymond Geuss Duke University Press 2006 Celan’s Meridian Raymond Geuss In October 1960 the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt made what might seem to be a highly peculiar decision. It pre...

...Ariel Resnikoff Abstract The present work addresses the deep intertangled poetic kithship between the Jewish German‐language poet Paul Celan (1920 – 70) and his most prolific translator, the contemporary translingual American poet, Pierre Joris (b. 1946). Taking Joris's recent and final translated...

... of linguistic and social form—in the poetic writing of Paul Celan and the Arabic-language translations of Celan offered by the Iraqi poet Khālid al-Ma‘ālī; in Walter Benjamin’s essayistic writing on language and the law; in the tenth-century Arabic-language philosopher Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī; and in Aristotle’s...

...Figure 1. Photo-collage of cover of Paul Celan's Die Niemandsrose (1964, S. Fischer Verlag) with Saharan sand rose. Photograph by Pierre Joris. ...

... and divisions. The author’s experience as a translator, the concept of determinate negation as developed by Theodor W. Adorno, the translation theory of Walter Benjamin, and a poem by Paul Celan support claims that translation is a dialectical process that works both ways: it influences the translator’s...

...); Fox-trails,-tales &-trots (2020); and the translations Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan (2020) and Microliths: Posthumous Prose of Paul Celan (2020). In 2020 Joris received the Batty Weber Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Luxembourg...

... published eleven full volumes and many shorter translations from German, including Theodor W. Adorno, Essays on Music (15 of 27 essays, 2002), Paul Celan, Corona: Poems of Paul Celan (2013), and Paul Celan and Ilana 266 boundary 2 / February 2021 Shmueli, Correspondence (2011, finalist for the National...

..., C-SPAN, and others. Pierre Joris just published Fox-trails, -tales & -trots (poems & proses, Black Fountain Press). He completed his half-century Celan translation project with these two final volumes: Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry of Paul Celan (FSG...

... through and into his writing and thinking as an expanded-Yiddish German afterlife in English and inter-comprehendible, if incomprehensible, translation of a Jewish dialect(ic)—as Rothenberg writes of Celan: you said “jew” & I said “jew” though neither spoke the jew words jew tongue neither...

... Mythologies: Essays on Contemporary Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Bose, Sumantra. Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace. Cambridge, Mass.: Har- vard University Press, 2003. Celan, Paul. Lightduress. Trans. Pierre Joris. København and Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005. Celan...

...? And that led me to Paul Celan, and the writings on Celan by Jacques Derrida [ 2005 ], and Giorgio Agamben's [ 1999 ] writing about Auschwitz, and Adorno's thoughts on culture after catastrophe. 9 One further influence and inspiration came to me purely by chance. When writing Occupied City , I went...

... Susan . In Responses: On Paul de Man’s Wartime Journalism , edited by Hamacher Werner Herz Neil Keenan Thomas , 438 – 67 . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Hamacher Werner . 1996 . “ Premises .” In Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan...

... and Celan, she outlines a method that could apply as well to Nobby: To keep attention strong means to keep it from settling. Partly for this reason I have chosen to talk about two men at once. They keep each other from settling. Moving and not settling, they are side by side in a conversation and yet...

... to Celan (1996). Tom Gunning is Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the Art History Department and a member of the Cinema and Media Committee at the University of Chicago. Author of D. W...