The seeker, and other poems by Nelly Sachs


The seeker, and other poems
Title : The seeker, and other poems
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ISBN : 0374257809
ISBN-10 : 9780374257804
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 399
Publication : Published January 1, 1970

English, German


The seeker, and other poems Reviews


  • Karen Witzler

    German/English edition. Into the depths of darkness, death, despair - but always searching - for the Maker, for light, for a cleansing breath. I wish I could read the originals. (Translated by Ruth and Matthew Mead and by Michael Hamburger)
    I tried to read carefully, one at a time.

  • Steven Godin


    Oh, what rune does the womb of earth
    inscribe with an oak's torment-twisted branches
    upon this air, which paints time with patterns of terror.

    Old man with the caftan—
    Coat cut from great loneliness,
    smokey with many candles of death and consecration—
    Old man sighing in the most homeless of languages—

    The iron soldier let you suffer in waves
    at the tree,
    re-creating a wind-twisted flight from earth.

    Zenith of pain!
    Wooden harp of tears
    and crows chewing the morsel of death
    which cruelty left over—

    Perhaps this is the place
    where this star will burst the black-sealed
    abundance of secrets
    and boil over monstrously
    into inconceivable eternity!


  • Milica Grujic

    Srpsko izdanje, Darma books, 2022. Odličan prevod. Zaslužuje mnoga buduća čitanja.