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Title: Glottal Stop: 101 Poems (Wesleyan Poetry) by Paul Celan, Nikolai Popov, Heather McHugh ISBN: 0-8195-6720-5 Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: what publisher's weekly said above
Comment: As Publisher's Weekly said Popov and McHugh "don't present the German texts en face, a practice they regard, in their preface, as a potential distraction from the reader's experience of their renderings. It would indeed be a distraction, making painfully clear just how far they depart from the originals to arrive at their idiosyncratic versions"

I don't know any German and even I could tell something was fishy. For example, for the poem on page 5, Popov and McHugh state that the German word "neige" means "remainder", "end" or "dregs". They select none of these choices for their translation and because there is no facing German it took me 10 minutes to find what word they did use. (I think it is "neighing" because neige "moves in the nearness" of the english word neigh.)

The endnotes are truly Kinbotian. Celan's late poems resist meaning, but not to Popov and McHugh. They understand it all.

It is sad that this book won the 2001 Griffin International Prize for poetry. Luckily, Amazon has a good deal on a four-volume set of Paul Celan's poetry, including Breathturn, Threadsuns and Lightduress, translated by Pierre Joris which I will move into nearness as soon as it is released.

Rating: 5
Summary: An Astounding book
Comment: This is a superb collection of poems by one of the world's truly great poets. This is one of the better translations I've read with the authors doing an admirable job of turning Celan's German into a very readable English that still manages to capture Celan's haunting style.

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