Breathturn into Timestead - Paul Celan

Celan, Paul: - Paul Celan was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1920, and is widely considered to be one of the most innovative poets of the twentieth century. A German-speaking Jew, he was sent to a forced labor camp during World War II. Celan settled in Paris in 1948, where he lived and wrote until his death in 1970. His books include Poppy and Memory and From Threshold to Threshold .