''Fadensonnen'' is a 1968 German-language poetry collection by

Paul Celan Paul Celan (; ; born Paul Antschel; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translation, literary translator. He adopted his pen name (an anagram of the Romanian spelling Ancel ...

. It has been translated by Pierre Joris as ''Threadsuns'', and by others as ''Twinesuns'' and ''Fathomsuns''. It was published in English in its entirety in 2000, though parts of it had appeared earlier in volumes of selected poems.

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Pierre Joris's translation was reviewed in ''

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'' in 2000: "''Threadsuns'' represents the continuation of a marked turn in Celan's poetics--away from lusher effusions to intensely compressed, increasingly stark investigations of language, history and the poet's own capacities. Because much of this later work is serial in nature,

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's decision to render the books in their entirety is profoundly important, and helps to make them necessary complements to he earlier translator

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's selections. While it may not consistently attain the dazzling heights and depths of Celan's finest work in '' Breathturn'' and 1963's '' The No-One's Rose'', ''Threadsuns'' contains an abundance of brilliant poems and provides ample evidence for the magnitude of Celan's stature in the last century, and in the one to come."

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1968 poetry books Poetry by Paul Celan German poetry collections Suhrkamp Verlag books {{Poetry-collection-stub

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