Number 87
The Moscow and Voronezh Notebooks of Osip Mandelstam
published on paper in bitter and cold places and in the memory of Nadia Mandelstam. It is kinda two books but if as a poet you write your own death warrant in one and then record your sentence in the other, special arrangements must be made.
Number 88
Die Niemandsrose (The No-One's Rose) by Paul Celan 1963
Of course I only know the first in translation by Richard and Elizabeth McKane (Bloodaxe) and the second through reading the German (barely) alongside Festiner, Joris, and Hamburger but if this list went down without those names it would be wrong.
* I waffled between Celan books forever, or at least since this thread began.
Last edited by Andrew Mandelbaum; 08-22-2013 at 08:57 AM.
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