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Her work is available in English translation in O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli (1967), The Seeker and Other Poems (1970), Collected Poems I 1944–1949 (2007), and Collected Poems II 1950–1969 (2007).
May 17, 2022 · Flight and Metamorphosis. , poems by Nelly Sachs, translated from the German by Joshua Weiner. In May of 1940, a passenger plane left Berlin for Stockholm; among the travelers were two “non-Aryans,” Nelly Sachs and her mother. They had barely escaped arrest by the Gestapo.
Most English-speaking readers are unfamiliar with these poems, even though they have existed in translation for many decades. In this bilingual edition, Joshua Weiner not only provides fresh translations of the poems, he has also included notes on many of them and a helpful introduction.
Translator’s Introduction: Nelly Sachs’s “Flight and Metamorphosis”. By Joshua Weiner. The Jewish-German (naturalized Swedish) poet Nelly Sachs was born in 1891, in the Schöneberg district of Berlin, to a bourgeois and assimilated family.
Apr 5, 2021 · Flight & Metamorphosis by Nelly Sachs. translated from the German by Joshua Weiner with Linda B. Parshall. forthcoming from Farrar Straus Giroux in Fall 2021. The Jewish-German (naturalized Swedish) poet, Nelly Sachs, was born in 1891 in the Schöneberg district of Berlin, to a bourgeois and assimilated family.
Mar 15, 2022 · Nelly Sachs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Mar 15, 2022 - Poetry - 208 pages. The central collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs, newly translated by Joshua Weiner (with...
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Jun 27, 2018 · German Jewish poet Nelly Sachs, a writer who fled the Nazis, and a translator whose translations of Swedish Modernist poets profoundly affected her poetic expression, is often considered a difficult poet. Her poems have been translated into English by several different translators.
