"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."

Which vein burst / to offer the holy geometry of yearning / a homeland in your eyes?

I discovered a lot of secrets, a lot of combinations, dark, political, religious, ideological, personal, to do with chess; spying, double and triple secret agents from all camps, secret police involved in dirty activities.