Selected poems;: Including the verse play 'Eli';

Sachs, Nelly

London, Cape [

Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems: A Bilingual Edition

About the Author\nNelly Sachs (1891–1970) was a dramatist and poet. Born into a Jewish family in Berlin, she was forced to flee Germany and escape to Sweden with her mother in 1940, where she worked as a translator. Her collections of poetry include In the Habitations of Death, Eclipse of Stars, And No One Knows Where to Go, and Flight and Metamorphosis. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.\nJoshua Weiner is a poet and translator. He is the author of Berlin Notebook: Where Are the Refugees?, The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish, From the Book of Giants, and The World’s Room, and he is the editor of At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn. From 1997 to 2021 he served as the poetry editor at Tikkun magazine. He is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, and lives in Washington, D.C.\nThis 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\nSo far out, in the open, 
cushioned in sleep. 
In flight from the land 
with love's heavy luggage.\nA butterfly-zone of dreams 
like an open parasol 
held up against the truth.\nFlight 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.\nFrom 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.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli

Nelly Sachs's career as a poet of note started only after her emigration to Sweden. Her first volume of poetry, In the Houses of Death creates a cosmic frame for the suffering of her time, particularly that of the Jews. Her poems are written in a keenly modern style, with an abundance of lucid metaphors, they also intone the prophetic language of the Old Testament. The collections Sternverdunkelung (Eclipse of Stars), 1949, Und niemand weiss weiter (And No One Knows Where to Go), 1957, and Flucht und Verwandlung (Flight and Metamorphosis), 1959, repeat, develop, and reinforce the cycle of suffering, persecution, exile, &amp; death which characterizes the life of the Jewish people, &amp; becomes transformed, in Nelly Sachs's powerful metaphorical language, into the terms of man's bitter, but not hopeless, destiny. Of her poetic dramas, the miracle play Eli (1950), broadcast in West Germany as a radio play, has been widely acclaimed. Nelly Sachs has received awards in Sweden and Germany, among them the Prize of the Swedish Poets Association &amp; the "Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels". In 1961 her collected poems were published under the title of Fahrt ins Staublose (Journey to the Beyond); her verse dramas in Zeichen im Sand (Signs in the Sand). O the Chimneys, English translations of some of her poetry and of her play Eli, appeared in 1967. Nelly Sachs was the co-winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature. This book, containing nearly half of her verse, is her first to be published in the English language. The book includes in its entirety one of her most important poem sequences, 'Glowing Enigmas, I, II, and III,' written in the 1960's; poems from six other collections: 'In the Habitations of Death,' 'Eclipse of the Stars,' 'And No One Knows How to Go On,' 'Flight and Metamorphosis, Journey into a Dustless Realm,' and 'Death Still Celebrates Life'; &amp; the complete text of 'Eli,' a mystery play of the sufferings of Israel.

O The Chimneys; Selected Poems, Including The Verse Play, Eli - 1st Edition/1st Printing

The seeker, and other poems

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

The central collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs, newly translated by Joshua Weiner (with Linda B. Parshall). 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.

Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891 - 1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920 - 1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried.

Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs: Correspondence

Biographies & Memoirs

Celan, Paul

Arts & Literature

Sheep Meadow Press

Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891 - 1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920 - 1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried.

Sheep Meadow Pr

Nobel Prize-winning poet Nelly Sachs escaped Nazi Germany to Sweden, where she wrote these and other brilliant poems as a “mute outcry” to the Holocaust.

Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer)

Green Integer

Poetry. Jewish Studies. Translated from the German by Michael Hamburger. Nelly Sachs's book-length poem GLOWING ENIGMAS is widely regarded as the Nobel Laureate's finest poetic achievement and one of the essential poetic works of postwar Europe. This definitive edition is the first in English to showcase the poem in its entirety. Michael Hamburger's incomparable translation captures the deep sadness, lyrical mystery, and transcendent opacity at the heart of Sachs's haunting masterpiece.

Glowing Enigmas

Tavern Books

Die Leiden Israels. Eli. In den Wohnungen des Todes. Sternverdunkelung.

Suhrkamp

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Selected poems;: Including the verse play 'Eli';

Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems: A Bilingual Edition

O The Chimneys; Selected Poems, Including The Verse Play, Eli - 1st Edition/1st Printing

The seeker, and other poems

Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems: A Bilingual Edition

Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs: Correspondence

Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs: Correspondence

Collected Poems I: (1944-1949) (Green Integer)

Glowing Enigmas

Die Leiden Israels. Eli. In den Wohnungen des Todes. Sternverdunkelung.