Flight and Metamorphosis by Nelly Sachs | Friday Pick
These poems explore the changes wrought by flight as in fleeing from, forced travel, emigration, leaving with no guarantee you will return, sometimes knowing you won't.
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Tim Postovit
I was the last place on the planet /
where astronauts slept /
my last customers were the planet’s /
last people
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My Seven Lives by Agneša Kalinová | Friday Pick
My Seven Lives tells a story of 20th century Central Europe through the voice of Slovak journalist Agneša Kalinová.
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Translating Nelly Sachs: An interview with Joshua Weiner
"The biggest challenge of translating Sachs into English, for me, had to do with tracking the movement of her mind in the forming of a poem."
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Nelly Sachs
Which vein burst / to offer the holy geometry of yearning / a homeland in your eyes?
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