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".
Engführung – Paul Celan
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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.
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