Letters to GisèlePaul Celan (trans. Jason Kavett), with a selection of letters by Gisle Celan Lestrange 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 produced a body of work that was an ongoing confrontation with that history of loss and with the German language. His poems, anguished and unsleeping, have by