Poetry as Celan understands it is…the interruption of the ‘poetic.’…The task of poetry seems to be tirelessly undoing the ‘poetic’; not by ‘putting an end’ to figures and tropes, but by pushing them ad absurdum…In the highly rigorous sense the term has in Heidegger, poetry would thus be the ‘deconstruction’ of the poetic, that is to say, both of what is recognized as such (here there is a closely fought confrontation with the poetic tradition) and of the spontaneous ‘poeticity’ of language.

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