NMLP P-042018 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Mohn und Gedächtnis

Paul Celan · Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart · 1952

The volume collects 56 poems in three cycles — 'Der Sand aus den Urnen', 'Gegenlicht' and 'Halme der Nacht' — of which 27 are carried over in slightly altered form from the suppressed 1948 Vienna book whose title supplies the first cycle's name; that recurrence is a common source of confusion between the two books

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042018 for "Mohn und Gedächtnis" by Paul Celan (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042018, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).