The seeker, and other poems by Nelly Sachs

The seeker, and other poems Reviews

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  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.