Poem

Celan

Title	Celan
Author	Tomás Mac Síomóin

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
An Crann faoi Bhláth: The Flowering Tree	1991	Print	View Details

Publication Instance Details #1230

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	An Crann faoi Bhláth: The Flowering Tree
Date of Publication	1991
Publisher	The Wolfhound Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	169

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	Genocide Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Holocaust
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish
Original Poem	Celan
Original Author	Tomás Mac Síomóin
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print
Notes	This poem describes the misery and suicide of the poet, Paul Celan. Celan was a poet who wrote about the effects of the Holocaust on his own family and life. In this poem, the speaker acknowledges the pain of Celan's life, as well as his influence on his own writing, and the permanence of his work.

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