Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer both Americans

both Americans

But be warned: some of these poems cast ‘Hiroshima shadow[s]’ to exorcise our civilisation’s pale myths

Rudiger Görner in Die Presse responded to the vibrancy of what he calls the 'Sprachpulsate' (pulses of language): 'Evelyn Schlag's poems have a kind of discreet presence

spoken and inherited words

Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer both AmericansThe Jewish writer Nelly Sachs (1891 1970) writes in direct response to the Holocaust. She is uniquely a 'prophetic' poet, one of the greatest of that species in twentieth century. Her first book appeared in the immediate wake of the Second World War, in 1946. Since that time, Hans Magnus Enzensberger declared, 'she has been writing fundamentally a single book'. That book is represented in this volume which reveals her whole progression rendered into