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Ein Stein

A poem I wrote on the train

joebamford7 poetry, Uncategorized Leave a comment 9th Aug 20259th Aug 2025 1 Minute

Engführung – Paul Celan

Attempted translation of Paul Celan's poem "Engführung" into English. I attempted to translate the affect of what Celan described that German poetry could no longer speak the language that "many ears expected to hear".

joebamford7 poetry Leave a comment 11th Feb 202511th Nov 2025 7 Minutes

Todesfuge – Paul Celan

My translation of Paul Celan's poem "Todesfuge". I intended to translate it as literally as possible. With little to no embellishments, grammatical transpositions, to emulate how the German reader reads the poem.

joebamford7 poetry Leave a comment 4th Feb 20256th Jun 2025 3 Minutes
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