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Revelation Freshly EruptingCollected PoetryNelly SachsTranslated by Andrew Shanks![]() 10% off all versions
Categories: 20th Century, British, German, Jewish, Scandinavian, Translation, War writings, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Classics Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (560 pages) (Pub. Sep 2023) 9781784105983 £30.00 £27.00 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Sep 2023) 9781784105990 £24.00 £21.60 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
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.
Awards won by Nelly Sachs
Winner, 1966 The Nobel Prize for Literature
'Andrew Shanks' translation comes with a thoughtful introduction and illuminating notes on the poems... Shanks' enthusiasm for Sachs' genius shines through his superb effort to render these poems in English clearly, without affectation.... Coming to terms with Revelation Freshly Erupting is not the work of a day, but reading right through in a few sessions repays us with the unfolding of one woman's "dark night of the soul". Sachs holds nothing back'
Dilys Wood, Artemis Poetry 'It is a demanding, astonishing body of work, that bears witness to the trauma of the Holocaust and its aftermath, as well as to the resilience of the spirit infused with a personalised Judaeo-Christian theology.' The Tablet |
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