Sankt Pölten bleibt Sankt Pölten
Autograph poem signed ("Unkel Paol").
No place, "zum 9. Juni 1960".
Oblong 8vo. 2 pp.
€ 7,500.00
An attractive and touchingly humorous poem for Jakob Demus (born on 9 June 1959), the son of the art historian and writer Klaus Demus, one of Celan's closest friends: "Bare Fässer sind nicht faßbar, | Fahre-Bässe fahren sölten, | doch Sankt Pölten bleibt Sankt Pölten. | Frag den Vater, frag die Mutter, | beide wissen von der Butter [...]".
Jakob would go on to become a celebrated artist, noted for his diamond drypoint etchings. One of his earliest teachers was the graphic artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, who married Celan in 1952.
Paul Celan, Die Gedichte aus dem Nachlaß, ed. B. Badiou, J. C. Rambach and B. Wiedemann (Frankfurt am Main, 1997).
