{"product_id":"language-behind-bars-9781934851487","title":"Language Behind Bars","description":"Celan's English language readers, and readers to come, will be deeply grateful for this new translation of his third book. I admire David Young's clear and respectful introduction, generous to his colleagues in Celan translation, and helpful in providing a broad context for this poetry; and I admire, especially, his faithfulness in spirit as he becomes a \"water-diviner\" of Celan's work. Young is a subtle, trusting reader of the ways this poet of poets took - as he had to - to create a completely new poetry. - Jean Valentine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCelan, Paul:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Paul Celan, now widely acknowledged as one the most important poets of the twentieth century, built a poetic vocabulary with which to express, slowly and painfully, the losses he had endured: his parents, victims of the Nazi death-camps; his fellow Jews of Europe; his native country, Romania, from which he fled the Stalinist takeover; and the poetic language, German, which had been so thoroughly corrupted and misused by the Third Reich. His reconstituting of German as a literary language, along with other writers like Gunter Eich and Nelly Sachs, remains one of the most redemptive acts of our time. He died in 1970.","brand":"Marick Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51806090723602,"sku":"9781934851487","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab59bdf6-53f3-4ccb-8a91-098892026735.jpg?v=1765975223","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/language-behind-bars-9781934851487","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}