Kristina Mendicino is Associate Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Announcements: On Novelty and Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech), both published by SUNY Press. Dominik Zechner is Assistant Professor of German at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

"…this book stakes its 'claim of philology' by estranging preexisting critical positions on Celan and fathoming his multivocal idioms as if for the first time." — Critical Inquiry"Beautiful and very open in its structure, Thresholds, Encounters is an invitation to dialogue." — Ilit Ferber, author of Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language"The volume demonstrates an exemplary fidelity to a practice of philology that is attentive to language's capacity for ungrounding its propositions. It would not be an exaggeration to describe these performances of reading as tours de force." — Jason Groves, author of The Geological Unconscious: German Literature and the Mineral Imaginary

• AcknowledgmentsDis-positions: IntroductionKristina Mendicino and Dominik ZechnerPart 1: Ex-posing the Poem History 1. "In the Swell of Wandering Words": Celan's "Sprich auch du" Michael G. Levine2. A Different Witness: Bearing with the Past in Paul Celan's "Engführung" Simone StirnerEcology 3. Flower Talk Jan Mieszkowski4. Poetic Involution: Adorno, Celan, Nature Natalie Lozinski-VeachAurality 5. Allophony: Celan's Niemandsrosen-Lieder Michael Auer6. "A Chest Full of Cello Boughs": The Sonorous Force of Writing in Deconstructive Readings of Celan Naomi Waltham-SmithPart 2: Language Dislodged Encounters 7. A limine Kristina Mendicino8. With—Paul Celan Pasqual SolassPositions 9. Occupiability Sarah Stoll, trans. Aida Feng10. For Shame of Language Dominik ZechnerTranslations 11. Poetic Approach: Celan's Radio Essay "Die Dichtung Ossip Mandelstamms" Irina Kogan12. The Mimetic Desire of Translation: Reading Celan and Derrida with Girard Christine FrankList of Contributors Index