Able Muse - nelly sachs https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/1460/1460? en Five Poems https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/nelly-sachs/five-poems? <p>I.<br /> <em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Wenn ich nur w&uuml;&szlig;te&rdquo;</em></p> <p>If only I knew,<br /> what your last look rested on.<br /> Was it a stone that had already drunk <br /> many last looks, until they fell in blindness<br /> on the blind?</p> <p>Or was it dirt,<br /> earth enough to fill a shoe,<br /> and already turned black<br /> from so many good-byes <br /> and from . . . <br /> . . . . . . . . . .</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/nelly-sachs/five-poems?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/nelly-sachs/five-poems?#comments Poetry Translation five poems german nelly sachs poem poetry translation teresa iverson translation v17 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 01:54:07 +0000 Alex Pepple 1095 at https://www.ablemuse.com Nelly Sachs https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/nelly-sachs? <p>Nelly Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1891, the only child of upper-middle class Jewish parents. As a child, she was partly educated at home because of weak health, and for the same reason her parents discouraged her from a career in dancing, in which she had begun to excel. <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/nelly-sachs?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/nelly-sachs?#comments Bios author bio german nelly sachs poem poems poetry poetry translation teresa iverson translation v17 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 01:18:06 +0000 Alex Pepple 1094 at https://www.ablemuse.com Teresa Iverson https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/teresa-iverson? <p>Teresa Iverson is a poet, translator, and editor. She holds a PhD in German Literature and Literary Translation from Boston University; her dissertation, on the poetry of Gottfried Benn, is titled: <em>Gottfried Benn&rsquo;s Intimate Discourse: The &ldquo;Du&rdquo; in Monologic Art.</em> <br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With Rosanna Warren, she taught poetry at MCI-Framingham, Massachusetts&rsquo; only prison for women, and coedited <em>In Time, </em>a collection of student inmates&rsquo; writing. <p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/teresa-iverson?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/bio/teresa-iverson?#comments Bios author bio german nelly sachs poem poetry poetry translation teresa iverson translation v17 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:59:34 +0000 Alex Pepple 1093 at https://www.ablemuse.com