Celebrating poets: NELLY SACHS

Hi Everyone,

Not too many people seem to know about Nelly Sachs anymore. She was a Jewish German poet from Berlin, who barely escaped Nazi Germany to live out her days in Sweden. She had a quiet life, caring for her mother, translating to make ends meet, and writing among the most searing poems about the Holocaust that exist. In fact, she and Paul Celan carried on a correspondence rooted in the suffering they’d both known. Sachs won the Nobel Prize in 1966 and died a few years later.

Here’s a link to her bio:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nelly-sachs

If you’re looking for a place to start, try Glowing Enigmas, a slim volume of her poetry translated by Michael Hamburger.

Abrazos,

Cristina