Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer together they form a resonant

together they form a resonant gathering of poems that celebrate

We travel with her unrooted

but English-language readers’ understanding of modern Greek poetry as a whole

The poems are not judgmental: they witness

/ if not sound

Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer together they form a resonantThe 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