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«Language Grids» is the third bilingual poetry book by Paul Celan, published in 1959 by the publishing house «S. Fischer Verlag in 1959. It contains poems that appeared from the beginning of 1955 to the end of 1958 and mark a radical change in Celan's poetics: a transition to the so-called "greyer" language. The 33 poems of the collection have absorbed important biographical, political and aesthetic events and phenomena and outline the reality that needs to be "found and acquired". In the poetological sense, they are distinguished by their pronounced innovative character. Like the two previous books, Poppy and Memory and From Threshold to Threshold, published in Ukrainian and German, Language Grids continues the series Meridian of the Heart. Library of German-language literature»
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It is a very lucky circumstance for us that some of the best poems that were created in the middle of the century were written by Celan in German. These poems are like scars on the body of our time, and when we read them, we should not forget about the wounds they once inflicted on the poet.
Horst Binek (1959)
Language Grids, this new collection of poems, offers 33 variations on a basic experience: beyond the invisible line, in the no-man's land of the heart, a gateway to another world opens. There, things show a different face than the one we usually know well; the separated comes together again; spatial and temporal, optical and acoustic impressions merge into a higher unity.
Walter Jens (1959)
