Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer touched by a humorous zeal

touched by a humorous zeal and an appetite for living

’ Fiona Sampson

both Americans

spoken and inherited words

The poems are not judgmental: they witness

Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer touched by a humorous zealThe 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