Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems - Nelly Sachs

A Bilingual Edition, translated from the German by Joshua Weiner

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.

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 2022, hardcover

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