"Hamburger's starkly graceful selected translations [of Celan].remain the best available."-- Publishers Weekly Paul Celan is the preeminent poet of the Holocaust. His chilling, haunted verse, evocative and agonizingly spare, is among the essential writing of the modern age. Paul Celan: 70 Poems is a portable selection of some of his most essential work, translated by Michael Hamburger (1924-2007), who for more than thirty years has provided the English-speaking world with the truest access to Celan's oeuvre.