Pajari Räsänen teaches comparative literature at the University of Helsinki.

Räsänen's exquisite study not only offers an exemplary contribution to the philology of poetry—both as it is practiced in the writings of Paul Celan, and as it may yet be practiced in approaching those writings—: for it also extends the "unconditional hospitality" of Celan's oeuvre, in all senses of the word. Throughout, Räsänen invites readers into those spaces for encounter which Celan's poems open, drawing out the intersections among texts and voices that take place within them, and making further room for others yet to come. In a word: Räsänen speaks, with Celan, for "the other's time" in ways which call for reading, for ever another time.

• ForecounterwordsChapter 1: How to Avoid Praying?Chapter 2: Undecidably EquivocalChapter 3: Squalls IChapter 4: Squalls IIChapter 5: The Tropic of CircumcisionChapter 6: In Life, Like a SecretChapter 7: Breathings