{"product_id":"revelation-freshly-erupting-book-nelly-sachs-9781784105983","title":"Revelation Freshly Erupting","description":"Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 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 Enzensberger declared, 'she has been writing fundamentally a  single book'. That book is represented in this volume which reveals her  whole progression rendered into English. Unlike earlier translators,  Andrew Shanks calls his versions 'translations\/imitations', moving away  from the doggedly literal to render more faithfully the sense and  intention of the originals.  Sachs escaped Berlin in May 1940. She  found refuge in Sweden. Her major work is an evolving response to the  trauma of the Holocaust. In 1966 she received the Nobel Prize for  Literature. This book includes all the lyric poetry Sachs published in  her lifetime and adds the posthumous collection Teile dich Nacht, an introductory essay, and notes.  Her  poetry begins as a monumental lament for the victims of the Holocaust.  Other themes develop: biblical, Kabbalist and religious allusions,  personal bereavement, mental breakdown. And there are reflections on  poetic vocation in the darkness of recent history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49746345034001,"sku":"NGR9781784105983","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50296722391313,"sku":"GOR013917123","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784105988.jpg?v=1766658768","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/revelation-freshly-erupting-buch-nelly-sachs-9781784105983","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}