Letters to Gisèle: 19511970: 19511970

Letters to Gisèle: 19511970: 19511970Insightful and provocative letters by a great twentieth century poet to his artist wife about life and, revealingly, his own writing. An intimate look at this canonical poet's process, mental health, and quotidian moments during the early 1950s. One of the most significant European poets of the twentieth century, Paul Celan came from an Eastern European Jewish family and lost his parents to the death camps of World War II. Transplanted to Paris, he