Poetry Unbound

Carolina Ebeid — Reading Celan in a Subway Station

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Oct 17, 2022
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ANECDOTE

Silent Kindness On The Underground

  • Gautam Shriekishin recalls a silent London Underground where a stranger offered a Kleenex to a crying commuter.
  • The small, wordless kindness became a memorable, tender moment for him.
ANECDOTE

Accordion Music Meets City Air

  • The poem "Reading Solan in a Subway Station" opens with an accordion player whose music approaches the speaker amid the station's atmosphere.
  • The speaker describes the music as "word-sorrow" drafting through her high-aligned shell of thought.
INSIGHT

Subway Sadness Raised Into Prayer

  • Gautam interprets the poem as a prayer rising from the subway and dignifying the city's sadness through music.
  • He sees the poem gathering the living and the dead, transforming sorrow into a liturgical offering.
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