Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems - Nelly Sachs tealight we made it when you

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Flight and Metamorphosis: Poems - Nelly Sachs tealight we made it when youA Bilingual Edition, translated from the German by Joshua Weiner So far out, in the open, cushioned in sleep. In flight from the land with love's heavy luggage. A butterfly zone of dreams like an open parasol held up against the truth. Flight 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