{"product_id":"memory-rose-into-threshold-speech-the-collected-earlier-poetry-a-bilingual-edition-9780374603236","title":"Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemory Rose into Threshold Speech \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003egathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as a major post-World War II German-language poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelan, a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust, created work that displays both great lyric power and an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural and political tendencies. His quest, however, is not only reflective: there is in Celan's writing a profound need and desire to create a new, inhabitable world and a new language for it. In \u003ci\u003eMemory Rose into Threshold Speech\u003c\/i\u003e, Celan's reader witnesses his poetry, which starts lush with surrealistic imagery, become gradually pared down; its syntax tightens and his trademark neologisms and word formations increase toward a polysemic language of great accuracy that tries, in the poet's own words, to measure the area of the given and the possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by the prize-winning poet and translator Pierre Joris, this bilingual edition follows the 2014 publication of \u003ci\u003eBreathturn into Timestead\u003c\/i\u003e, Celan's collected later poetry. All nine volumes of Celan's poetry are now available in Joris's carefully crafted translations, accompanied here by a new introduction, as well as extensive commentary by Joris and Barbara Wiedemann. The four volumes in this edition show the flowering of one of the major literary figures of the last century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume collects Celan's first four books: \u003ci\u003eMohn und Gedächtnis (Poppy and Memory)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVon \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchwelle zu Schwelle (Threshold to Threshold)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSprachgitter (Speechgrille)\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDie Niemandsrose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e (NoOnesRose)\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374603236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592","brand":"Paul Celan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42406057214133,"sku":"9780374603236","price":30.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c975c887-1729-4c4c-b55f-41748e7b5a05.jpg?v=1664285709","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/memory-rose-into-threshold-speech-the-collected-earlier-poetry-a-bilingual-edition-9780374603236","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}