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Sonnets to Orpheus

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A. Snow (Translator)Publish date:2005-05-18Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780865477216ISBN-10:865477213UPC:9780865477216Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, SonnetsBook Topic:GermanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCJ2BR51BW

Sonnets to Orpheus

Breathing, you invisible poem
World-space in pure continuous interchange
with my own being. Equipose
in which I rhythmically transpire.

Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured, stands as the poet's final masterwork. In these meditations on the constant flux of our world and the ephemerality of experience, Rilke envisions...


Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780865477216ISBN-10:865477213UPC:9780865477216Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:European, SonnetsBook Topic:GermanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCJ2BR51BW

Edward Snow is a professor of English at Rice University. He is the recipient of an Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations and has twice received the Academy of American Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.


Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

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