Mother Tongue, Holy Tongue: On Translating and Not Translating Paul Celan

"Ziv, That Light": Translation and Tradition in Paul Celan

“…4 Admittedly that break would seem to raise twofold the generic question of translation. A single lyric may carry one tongue or text across to another, may gestate within itself the epitome of a tradition, may reach from some certain past toward an uncertain yet open future.…”