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VCFA Journal of the Arts
by Paul Celan
Translated by Daniel Tobin
I heard Him once.
He was washing the world
through the long night.
Unseen. Real.
One and Infinite.
Emptied.
I-ed.
Light existed.
And deliverance.
Read “Imagine It” by Paul Celan, translated by Daniel Tobin
Read Ann Lauinger’s “Nighthouse,” after Celan
Daniel Tobin is the author of four books of poems, Where the World is Made, Double Life, The Narrows, and Second Things. His fifth collection, Belated Heavens, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2010. Among his awards are “The Discovery/The Nation Award,” The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, and creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. He is Chair of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston.
