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Something wrong?He turned the language of his mother's murderers into verse so dense and broken it rewrote what German poetry could mean after the camps.
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, A little stallion gallops across the leafing fingers-Black the gate leaps open, I sing; How did we live here?
Aspen tree, your leaves glance white into the dark.
We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from the street:it is time they knew! It is time the stone made an effort to flower,time unrest had a beating heart.
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Born Paul Antschel in Romania on 23 November 1920, he survived the Holocaust while his parents did not. After the war he took the pen name Celan - an anagram of Ancel, the Romanian spelling of his surname - and moved to France in 1949, becoming a French citizen in 1955. His poetry, written in German, broke radically with convention: cryptic, linguistically innovative, shaped by what could barely be said. That difficulty made him one of the most important figures in German-language literature of the post-war era. He drowned in the Seine around 20 April 1970.
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