Paul Celan in Counterpoint: A Poetic Dialog with Sergio Torres-Martínez

By Sergio Torres-Martínez

This illustrated counterpoint unfolds as a sustained theological argument conducted through poetry across Paul Celan's final three volumes (Lichtzwang, Schneepart, Zeitgeh ft). Poet Sergio Torres-Mart nez constructs a systematic refutation of the Kabbalistic mysticism that pervades Celan's late work-not to diminish Celan's achievement or his witness to the Holocaust, but to assert an independent voice shaped by encounter. This is neither translation nor imitation, but a dialogue across irreducible difference: a personal theodicy insisting that human beings shine brighter than any fetishized stone.

Due to copyright restrictions, Celan's poems cannot be reproduced here. Instead, his titles stand alone, facing Torres-Mart nez's responses directly. This absence becomes structural-a haunting echo of the very incommunication that permeates Celan's poetry, now enacted in the architecture of the book itself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G12ZG5ZQ
• ISBN13: 9798273151499
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"