Death of Celan

Author(s): Yehuda Amichai, Barbara Harshav and Benjamin Harshav

Source: New German Critique, No. 91, Special Issue on Paul Celan (Winter, 2004), p. 191
Published by: Duke University Press
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Death of Celan

Yehuda Amichai

I heard it in London, they said, committed suicide:

The same rope slightly pulled
My neck.
Not a rope: he
Died in water.
The same water, water, water.

Last simile:
Life like death.
(The same water, water, water.)

Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav

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