"Poetry makes time a site whose silences (the unsaids) exist in relation to its sounds (the sayings). Where public discourse bounds and shapes these silences by designating what is unspeakable, Paul’s figuration of “breathturns” resisted this.."
https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/spring2025/both-apply-a-readers-notes-on-paul-celans-letters/
https://airlightmagazine.org/airlight/spring2025/both-apply-a-readers-notes-on-paul-celans-letters/
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"Paul’s relational view of language acknowledges how poems and letters touch us; how words become ways of being-with others across borders and time and unfathomable difference."