Inner sky : poems, notes, dreams /
| Uniform title: | Works. |
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Searls, Damion. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Boston : David R. Godine, 2010. |
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| Summary: | A new selection of poems and prose by the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, set with the original text and a facing page translation, and including more than a dozen works that have never before appeared in English. The translations, by the NEA and PEN-award-winning author and translator Damion Searls, are lively, moving, and appealing, and they give a new voice for Rilke in English: mystical but concrete. |
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| Item Description: | Includes indexes. |
| Physical Description: | 190 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781567923889 1567923887 |
| Author Notes: | Restless, sensitive, reverent, yet egotistical, Rilke often seems to hover in his poems like a sort of ethereal being. He was born in 1875 to a wealthy family in Prague. After a few years devoted to the study of art and literature, he spent most of his adult life wandering among the European capitals and devoting himself single-mindedly to poetry. His early poems reflect his interest in the visual and plastic arts, as he tries to lose himself in contemplation of objects such as an antique torso of Apollo.His later books of poetry, such as Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1923), on the contrary, focus intently on internal realms. The poetry of Rilke is noted, above all, for metaphysical and psychological nuances. (Bowker Author Biography) |