Breathturn
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A German-English Bilingual Edition.
Breathturn (German: Atemwende) is the first of Paul Celan's three major poetry books before his death by suicide in 1970. This book brilliantly reveals the "Wende" or turning point of his writing.
Translator Pierre Joris won the 2004 PEN Translation Award for Paul Celan's Lightduress.
Paul Celan
Paul Celan was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Romania; he lived in France and wrote in German. His works are collected in English in Poems of Paul Celan A Bilingual German/English Edition and Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, among other books.
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