Nelly Sachs wrote that "we / really don't know / what / counts" at the end of her poem "Zurich,
A poem by this author ends with an image of "two mouthfuls of silence" assembled together on the tiles. In a poem by him, the sight of a tree that "grasps the light-tone" forces the speaker to conclude: "there are still songs to sing beyond mankind." Anne Carson's study Economy of the Unlost examines this modern poet's gradual adoption of arcane neologisms like "lightforce" and "threadsuns." Nelly Sachs wrote that "we / really don't know / what / counts" at the end of her poem "Zurich, At the Stork," which commemorates her friendship with this poet. This author's best-known poem discusses a man who "plays with his serpents," asserting that "death comes as a (*) master from Germany." That poem, which contrasts "your ashen hair Shulamith" with "your golden hair Margarete," describes a man commanding Jews to dig a grave, and begins: "black milk of daybreak we drink it at nightfall." For 10 points, name this Romanian-born German Holocaust survivor, who wrote the poem "Death Fugue."
A poem by this author ends with an image of "two mouthfuls of silence" assembled together on the tiles.
Paul Celan [or Paul Antschel]