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Paul Celan's poetry collection The Shelter of Time, published by Zurkamp Verlag in 1976, almost 7 years after the poet's death, contains 50 poems. These are Celan's last poems, written between 25 February 1969 and 13 April 1970 (with the exception of the poem Migdalna, dated 2 September 1968). They could no longer be prepared for publication by the author himself and were published on the basis of three convolutes found in the poet's archive. The central part of the collection is the so-called "Jerusalem Cycle", based on the impressions of Celan's trip to Israel in October 1969. Full of dark forebodings and eschatological motifs, the book stylistically continues the poet's previous late collections Fibre Suns, Light Compulsion, and Aria of Snow.