Download Article pdf Paul Celan and the Poetics of Anxiety Dominic o’key, School of Languages, Cultures, and Societies, University of Leeds En10dok@leeds.ac.uk precarious = the poetic as the precarious –––Paul Celan, ‘Drafts’, in The Meridian[1] There is something inherently precarious about anxiety. When conceptualizing the dreadful affect in 1844, Søren Kierkegaard posits that anxiety is located in ‘the nothing’, that …