Galway Kinnell reads Paul Celan

[satansprick13]

i actually do know his grandchild,and she hates this version.she hates also her own...h-sabo-.tage.none as smrt asmee.haha fuckyall

[nogocologne]

did Celan also wrote a poem about the nearly 1 Million german and hungarian who lived in the same "Rumanian" area who were expelled & killed & enslaved by the glorious bolsheviks after WW2? or the 7 million ukrainians which were massacred during the 30´s under Stalins regime. of course not. Except jews anyone else is second class victim.

Ask the "holocaust priest" Ellie Wiesel about Nikolaus Gruner..LOL

[satansprick13]

@nogocologne is that true or are only a trendy germany-hater

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[Jadabh3]

DARK SPELLS MR CELAN, DARK SPELLS

Rob x

[Durhandoni]

I don´t like this reading. This isn´t a poem of horror. Celan was far behind being frightened, when he wrote this, he went through horror and felt ashamed he survived and others didn´t, like many who survived. That´s the point, where to find an access in reading this poem to audience.

[satansprick13]

@Durhandoni oh you think you are so clever moise.shut the fuck up,bigmouth and start learnin from a great asshole

[TedMichaelMorgan]

Thank you for posting this fine reading.

[Bayramo79]

super gelesen...

"We drink and drink it..."

[btmurp]

Just a little correction of the information given at right: The poem's German title is "Todesfuge", often translated as "Death Fugue." And it's not exactly an anti-war poem ... but more of a response to the Nazi death-camps. Anyway, thanks for posting this strong performance!

[podarades]

Rarely, but rarely, do American poets read their poetry so as to improve the private, quiet reading of it. Why is it so, I wonder!

[bobtheantman1]

@podarades How did you feel about this reading?

[podarades]

@bobtheantman1--- Better than most, but I have not been as moved as in my own introspective, private reading.

[bobtheantman1]

@podarades I find that very few poems read aloud offer the deeper elements of a poem, with some exceptions, because I have been deeply moved by some works recited or read aloud. So I agree with you, most of my deepest experiences with poetry are private, solitary, internal, quiet.