Mohn und Gedächtnis

A key work of German post-war poetry - now available in a bibliophile new edition for the 60th anniversary. In 1952, the slim volume of poems "Mohn und Gedächtnis" was published by DVA, bound in black linen. The author, born Paul Antschel in 1920 in Czernowitz/Bukovina, was unknown to the literary public at that time. Today, these 56 poems, including "Todesfuge," his most famous work, are considered among the most significant of the 20th century; also because they are among the earliest testimonies of a poetic engagement with the Shoah in the Federal Republic. This theme, along with Celan's disciplined yet magically associative language, allows us to read "Mohn und Gedächtnis" as if it were a new discovery even today. Now, on the 60th anniversary, this volume is presented again in a bibliophile edition reminiscent of the original editions.