Letters to Gisèle Off-White

Letters to Gisèle Off-WhitePaul Celan (trans. Jason Kavett), with a selection of letters by Gisle Celan Lestrange One of the most significant European poets of the twentieth century, Paul Celan came from an Eastern European Jewish family and lost his parents to the death camps of World War II. Transplanted to Paris, he produced a body of work that was an ongoing confrontation with that history of loss and with the German language. His poems, anguished and unsleeping, have by

' He will never be quite the same again

connections inside strict 16-line grids

by which she means

Burgers proberen hun eigen bestaan uit de klauwen van hun identiteit te wringen

that slyly universalising symbol

she now lives in London

voor het leven

These 118 poems cover timeless themes such as work

Jasper Albinus

Translated from Norwegian by its author

economie en liefde vermengen zich in een pakkend ritme

" as well as previously unknown texts and detailed notes