Poetry after Auschwitz? Celan and Adorno revisited

Adorno's comments regarding poetry after Auschwitz have been misread as a '' ban '' that, according to many critics, Paul Celan has successfully '' rebutted.'' This assertion rests on a misunderstanding of Adorno's statements and Celan's poetic project. I demonstrate in close readings of Celan's poetry that he worked more with Adorno than against him: documenting modern poetry's crisis and inventing a critical form that might not be '' barbaric '' after Auschwitz.