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Notes for “The Fugue Poem: On C.D. Wright and Paul Celan”




[1] Wright, C.D. Deepstep Come Shining (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1998).

[2] "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," YouTube, https://youtu.be/iiRJ20LPTv0?t=39

[3] Celan, Paul. "Deathfugue," lines 1-6. Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), trans. Pierre Joris.

[4] Celan, Paul. "Deathfugue," lines 29–35. 

[5] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 3

[6] ibid, 5

[7] ibid

[8] ibid

[9] ibid, 37

[10] ibid, 42

[11] ibid, 61

[12] ibid, 77

[13] ibid, 92

[14] ibid, 100

[15] ibid, 99

[16] Celan, “Deathfugue,” lines 1-3.

[17] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 10

[18] ibid

[19] ibid, 52

[20] Celan, “Deathfugue,” lines 34–35. 

[21] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 5

[22] ibid, 89

[23] ibid, 101

[24] ibid, 104

[25] ibid

[26] Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1922), trans. C. K. Ogden.

[27] Wright, Deepstep Come Shining, 22

[28] Johnson, Kent. “Looking for ‘one untranslatable song’: C.D. Wright on poetics, collaboration, American prisoners, and Frank Stanford.” Jacket Magazine. December 2001. http://jacketmagazine.com/15/cdwright-iv.html

[29] Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1922), trans. C. K. Ogden, prop. 6.54 (“throw away the ladder”).