
#NationalPoetryMonth Day 22: Although I have been posting a poem-a-day this month, there aren't many poems that I would insist are absolutely essential. Works of art that are transcendent & urgent, that everyone must read them. Paul Celan's Todesfugue or Death Fugue is an exception. Noted philosopher Theodor Adorno once wrote, “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.“ Out of the devastation & inhumanity of the holocaust & the war, Celan
Link to full poem:
https://poets.org/poem/death-fugue 3y