Paul Celan
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Auschwitz Museum
An unexpected and moving honour. My poem “Heidegger in the Forest” has been selected for a second edition of an anthology of poetry published by the Auschwitz Museum. Here’s a link to the old one. My poem was about how the German philosopher Martin Heidegger avoided speaking to the Jewish poet Paul Celan after the…
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timeless
This quote from Paul Celan, possibly the greatest European poet of the 20th century, made me think about the difference between art and advertising. Celan said: For a poem is not timeless. Certainly it lays claim to infinity, it seeks to reach through time [durch sie hindurch] through it not above and beyond it. For…
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