Breathturn

"Unlike previous selected translations, this volume offers American readers the first glimpse into the sustained practice of this poet covering the period of his writing between 1963 and 1965....Amazingly, Joris has reimagined in English the radiating word clusters and suspenseful, probing syntax of the originals and has resisted the impulse to transform Celan's uncommon usage into 'natural' American speech patterns--what would be a devastatingly 'readable' but flawed translation."Celan, Paul is the author of 'Breathturn', published 2007 under ISBN 9781933382524 and ISBN 193338252X.