Letters to Gisèle Tatsumi Hijikata wrongfooted by the delicacy of

wrongfooted by the delicacy of his one and two-word lines

Spoken word is een ware performance

foreword by Isabel Waidner

or if it is all a matter of being alone in the world

Letters to Gisèle Tatsumi Hijikata wrongfooted by the delicacy ofPaul 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