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The poetry collection Fibrous Suns (1968) is the most voluminous and probably the most "difficult" collection of poems in Paul Celan's oeuvre. This was also evidenced by the contemporary literary criticism, which, after its appearance, was rather helpless and reacted with such passwords as "subjective encryption", "esoteric secret language", "total hermeticism", etc. Here, Celan's search for absolute verse was expressed in a particularly extreme form, but perhaps along the way he really penetrated the unexplored spheres of language and the extreme limits of poetic speech, which for us only glow in the unattainable distance. In its figurative density and laconicism, this is already the poetic language of the future.