Atemwende

Name: Atemwende
Author: Paul Celan

by Paul Celan

Later poems exploring silence, mortality, and the breath of language

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Paul Celan

Romanian-born German-language poet who survived the Holocaust and whose dense, fractured verse reconfigured German poetry after Auschwitz. Todesfuge (Death Fugue) is one of the most powerful poems about the Holocaust.

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Die NiemandsroseHolocaust elegies addressing the nameless dead with linguistic fragmentation