Some years ago I spent some time with a few friends, a bunch of german
dictionaries, and a bilingual edition of Celan's late poetry. Not a German
speaker in the crowd. It was an astonishing experience. One of the great
poets. Of course it helped that we were all sympathetic to the apparently
fragmentary in our own poetry.
At 07:49 AM 7/19/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>I think my attitude is that in English Celan comes over as hype
>whereas in German he is a great poet. I wish I had languages.
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