Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer But be warned: some of

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

both Americans

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’ Fiona Sampson

We travel with her unrooted

Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer But be warned: some ofThe 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