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Debbie Liu's avatar

intertesting revisitation. I love this line "Is summer? Summer was. Already time

leads onward into winters and eclipses."

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Paul Franz's avatar

Thank you very much, Debbie!

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David A. Westbrook's avatar

Ok, this is interesting indeed. For now, I would say that the translations/transformations are not equal in magnitude. Celan takes a pretty aggressive approach, essentially writes a new poem bounded by Shakespeare's. You take far fewer liberties with Celan . . . anyway, thank you. Very cool.

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Paul Franz's avatar

Oh yes, that’s certainly the case. My aim here was humble fidelity—to, rather paradoxically, Celan’s infidelity. To have sought to vie with him would have been a different enterprise altogether!

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