Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems: A Bilingual Edition

by Nelly Sachs

Book Overview

This central collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs--newly translated from the German by Joshua Weiner (with Linda B. Parshall)--reveals the visionary poet's remarkable power of creation and transformation

So far out, in the open,
cushioned in sleep.
In flight from the land
with love's heavy luggage.

A butterfly-zone of dreams
like an open parasol
held...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374157081
• ISBN13: 9780374157081
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"