Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811206518ISBN-10:811206513UPC:9780811206518Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanSize:8.03 x 5.22 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.32Product ID:SC27XQXAJX
The eighty-four poems included in this small volume will serve as a sound and inviting introduction to Rilke's strategies in the pursuit of "being." And just as the unicorn in "This Is the Creature" has an eternal "possibility of being" but only becomes visible in the mirror held by a virgin, so can our own possibilities become manifest in the mirror held by the sensitive artist. The poems are chosen from The Book of Hours (1899-1903), The Book of Images (1902 and 1906), New Poems (1907 and 1908), Requiem (1909), Duino Elegies (1923), Sonnets to Orpheus (1923), and the posthumous Poems 1906-26. This selection was made by Professor Theodore Ziolkowski of Princeton University, who drew from the various New Directions volumes of Rilke's work translated by J. B. Leishman.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811206518ISBN-10:811206513UPC:9780811206518Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:EuropeanSize:8.03 x 5.22 x 0.36 inchesWeight:0.32Product ID:SC27XQXAJX
Rilke, Rainer Maria: - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.
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