Paul Celan (1920-1970) is and remains perhaps the most important poet of the German language after World War II and the Holocaust. Unlike the long out-of-print "Selected Poems" published 40 years ago, in the year of Celan's death, the new selection can draw from the wealth of poems fully published in the two major editions by Suhrkamp Verlag. It fills a gap in the extensive collection of poetry volumes by modern classics available in the Suhrkamp Library.