Works of Italian poets citing Paul Celan

The document contains poems by Italian poets that include either a direct quotation from or an explicit reference to the work of Paul Celan, or that evoke Celan as the dedicatee of the text.

This anthology of poems by various authors confirms the hypothesis regarding the widespread presence of both the work and the figure of Paul Celan in poetic texts written in Italy from the 1980s to the present day. Specifically, the anthology provides pragmatic examples of the act of reading by contemporary Italian poets who not only engage in a dialogue with Celan’s poetry, but who above all create, within their own verses, constellations - spaces of encounter - between Celan’s voice and that of other European authors and poets (from Trakl to Eliot, from Jaccottet to Mandelshtam, from Tsvetaeva to Benn, from Rilke to Szymborska, from Artaud to Sellin, from Sereni to Shalamov).