

Published in 1968 in German, Fadensonnen (Fathomsuns) is Paul Celan's sixth and most extensive collection of verse, presenting 105 poems. Written between 1965 and 1967, they comprised the last major sequence released in the poet's lifetime. Benighted (Eingedunkelt),...


Paul Celan is the greatest German-language poet after Rilke. "Fathomsuns," published in 1968, is his longest collection and one of his most ambitious. "Benighted" is a sequence of 11 poems. These works show Celan at his most provocative and unassimilable.
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