Revelation Freshly Erupting

Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024 Winner of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2024 The Jewish poet 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 the twentieth century. Her first book appeared in the immediate wake of the Second World War, in 1946. Since that time, Hans Magnus Enzensberg...