{"product_id":"under-the-dome-9780872868083","title":"Under the Dome","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe’s greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical treatment but who nonetheless remained a generous friend and a poet for whom writing was a matter of life and death.\"—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jean Daive's memoir of his brief but intense spell as confidant and poetic confrère of Paul Celan offers us unique access to the mind and personality of one of the great poets of the dark twentieth century.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eJ.M. Coetzee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Celan (1920–1970) is considered one of Europe's greatest post-World-War II poets, known for his astonishing experiments in poetic form, expression, and address. \u003cem\u003eUnder the Dome \u003c\/em\u003eis French poet Jean Daive's haunting memoir of his friendship with Celan, a precise yet elliptical account of their daily meetings, discussions, and walks through Paris, a routine that ended suddenly when Celan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Seine. Daive's grief at the loss of his friend finds expression in \u003cem\u003eUnder the Dome\u003c\/em\u003e, where we are given an intimate insight into Celan's last years, at the height of his poetic powers, and as he approached the moment when he would succumb to the debilitating emotional pain of a Holocaust survivor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUnder the Dome, \u003c\/em\u003eJean Daive illuminates Celan's process of thinking about poetry, grappling with questions of where it comes from and what it does: invaluable insights about poetry's relation to history and ethics, and how poems offer pathways into a deeper grasp of our past and present. This new edition of Rosmarie Waldrop’s masterful translation includes an introduction by scholars Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard, which provides critical, historical, and cultural context for Daive’s enigmatic, timeless text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Under the Dome\u003c\/em\u003e breathes with Celan while walking with Celan, walking in the dark and the light with Celan, invoking the stillness, the silence, of the \u003cem\u003ebreathturn \u003c\/em\u003ewhile speaking for the deeply human necessity of poetry.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Palmer\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Laughter of the Sphinx\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The fragments textured together in this more-than-magnificent rendering of Jean Daive’s prose poem by this master of the word, Rosmarie Waldrop, grab on and leave us haunted and speechless.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eMary Ann Caws\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCreative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of the \u003cem\u003eYale Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rosmarie Waldrop's brilliant translation resonates with her profound knowledge of both Celan's and Daive's poetry and the passion for language that she shares with them. The text brings these three major poets together in a highly unusual and wholly successful collaboration.\"—\u003cstrong\u003eCole Swensen\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eOn Walking On\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rosmarie Waldrop takes up Celan’s question to Jean Daive as her own. I cannot unread her inimitable ease in these pages. 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