Nelly SachsVezi magazinul LibrisThis central collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs--newly translated from the German by Joshua Weiner (with Linda B.
Parshall)--reveals the visionary poet's remarkable power of creation and transformation So far out, in the open, cushioned in sleep.
In flight from the land with love's heavy luggage.
A butterfly-zone of dreams like an open parasol held up against the truth.
Flight and Metamorphosis marks the culmination of Nelly Sachs's development as a poet.
Sachs, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966, speaks from her own condition as a refugee from Nazi Germany--her loneliness while living in a small Stockholm flat with her elderly mother; her exile, her alienation, her feelings of romantic bereavement; and her search for the divine.
Forced onto a journey of endless change, Sachs created her own path forward.
From these sublime poems, she emerges as a visionary, one who harnesses language's essential power to create and transform our world.
Joshua Weiner's translations (with Linda B.
Parshall) are the first in more than half a century to elucidate Sachs's enduring poetic power and relevance.
