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Death Fugue

Paul Celan

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1948
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 1

A poem sings the death camps as a fugue, black milk drunk at morning and evening, a commandant with blue eyes, graves dug in the air, the unsayable said by being sung.

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night.
Death Fugue, Paul Celan

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