Paul Celan : Poet, Survivor, Jew

This book is the first critical biography of Paul Celan, a German-speaking East European Jew who was Europe's most compelling postwar poet.

It tells the story of Celan's life, offers new translations of his poems, and illuminates the connection between Celan's lived experience and his poetry.

Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award Chosen as a best book of 1995 by Choice magazine, Village Voice, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Philadelphia Inquirer Winner of the 1997 University of Iowa Writers' Workshop Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin