{"product_id":"flight-and-metamorphosis","title":"Flight and Metamorphosis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe central collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs, newly translated by Joshua Weiner (with Linda B. Parshall).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo far out, in the open,\u003cbr\u003ecushioned in sleep.\u003cbr\u003eIn flight from the land\u003cbr\u003ewith love's heavy luggage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA butterfly-zone of dreams\u003cbr\u003elike an open parasol\u003cbr\u003eheld up against the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlight and Metamorphosis marks the culmination of Nelly Sachs’s development as a poet. Sachs, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966, speaks from her own condition as a refugee from Nazi Germany―her loneliness while living in a small Stockholm flat with her elderly mother; her exile, her alienation, her feelings of romantic bereavement; and her search for the divine. Forced onto a journey of endless change, Sachs created her own path forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom these sublime poems, she emerges as a visionary, one who harnesses language’s essential power to create and transform our world. Joshua Weiner’s translations (with Linda B. Parshall) are the first in more than half a century to elucidate Sachs’s enduring poetic power and relevance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Depot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50926345257267,"sku":"9780374606435","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/1108\/1267\/files\/9780374606435.jpg?v=1736475715","url":"https:\/\/slantoflightbooks.com\/products\/flight-and-metamorphosis","provider":"Slant of Light Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}