Letters to GisèlePaul 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

'Wil je mij poëzie leren

measured lyric to Dickinson-inspired gnomic utterance

his unrivaled fandom for both elevated and popular culture

humorous—creates a strong case for how new literature can provide speculative and performative excursions into post-urban lives and idioms and explore renewed visions for languages

There is a memorialising strain in the forensic accumulation of detail

Painting and its processes bring bright colors to the surface

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Er is een reden voor dit alles: autisme

which Darwish read in Ramallah a month before his death

only a small percentage of them ever found their way into print

In Interior Landscape

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