Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer but English-language readers’ understanding of

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

’ Fiona Sampson

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Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poems by Nelly Sachs Nora Gomringer but English-language readers’ understanding ofThe 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