Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness

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""Night Ray" - Paul Celan "Most brightly of all burned the hair of my evening loved one: to her I send the coffin of lightest wood. Waves billow round it as round the bed of our dream in Rome; it wears a white wig as I do and speaks hoarsely: it talks as I do when I grant admittance to hearts. It knows a French song about love, I sang it in autumn when I stopped as a tourist in Lateland and wrote my letters to morning. A fine boat is that coffin carved in the coppice of feelings. I too drift in"