Romanian Poems - Green Integer Author:Paul Celan, Julian Semilian Paul Celan was a poet of many layers, and until recently readers of English only could but imagine his power and complexity. Andrei Codrescu wrote of this book: Paul Celan ". . . has become the raw material of so much critical processing, it has become difficult to read him without hearing the voices of the commentators. The continual buzzing of... more » the interpretive chorus around Celan's poetry has nearly added another layer of pain to work that is already written at the synapses of raw nerves. I say 'nearly,' because happily there is Julian Semilian and Sanda Agalidi, who translate the poetry as if there are only two entities in the room: Psyche and Echo. Celan would have been proud to be thus refreshed."« less