Poetic AffairsPoetic Affairs deals with the complex and fascinating interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three outstanding poets: the German Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (19201970); the Leningrad native, U. S. poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (19401996); and Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grnbein (born 1962). Focusing on their poetic dialogues with such interlocutors as