Further Reading
- Blomster, W. V., "A Theosophy of the Creative Word: The Zohar-Cycle of Nelly Sachs," Germanic Review XLIV (1969): 221-27. (Presents an investigation of Sachs's concern with the word of God in her poetry, particularly the poems of the Zohar cycle.)
- Bosmajiam, Hamida, "Towards the Point of Constriction: Nelly Sachs's 'Landschaft aus Schreien' and Paul Celan's 'Engführung,'" in Metaphors of Evil: Contemporary German Literature and the Shadow of Nazism, pp. 183-228. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1979. (Compares 'Landschaft aus Schreien' and 'Engführung,' describing them as 'hermetic poems forged by the imagination of two survivors who internalized the chaos of history and struggled with it until their deaths in 1970.')
- Foot, Robert, The Phenomenon of Speechlessness in the Poetry of Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Günter Eich, Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1982, 415 p. (Examines the phenomenon of 'Verstummen,' or speechlessness, in twentieth-century poetry, a condition brought on by the poet's lack of faith in his abilities and subsequent 'attitude of self-defeat,' and provoked in Sachs' work by her difficulty verbalising both 'the unspeakable cruelty of the human world' and the 'metaphysical aspects of existence.')
- Margetts, John, "Nelly Sachs and 'Die Haargenaue Aufgabe': Observations on the Poem-Cycle 'Fahrt ins Staublose,'" Modern Language Review 73, No. 3 (July 1978): 550-62. (Offers an analysis of the nine poems in the cycle Fahrt in Staublose, highlighting the 'unity of the individual poems in dealing with the central poetological theme of the cycle.')
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