About this title: Rilke influenced generations of writers with his "Letters to a Young Poet". His "Book of Hours" offers an invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world. These fresh translations by a distinguished poet and a well-known mystic and spiritual teacher capture Rilke's spirit in a uniquely new way.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN-13:9781594481567ISBN:1594481563
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781594481567ISBN:1594481563
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Date Published: 1997-04-01
ISBN-13:9781573225854ISBN:1573225851
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: RIVERHEAD
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781594481567ISBN:1594481563
Description: New. At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time-he consider... read more
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"Aside from the fact that the translators took undeserved liberties, the poems represented (and should I say this translation only loosely represents the poems) are some of my favorite Rilke poems.
"The Book of Hours in other translations is definitely worth the read, however, this translation is unadulterated rubbish. Find a M.D. Herter Norton or Edward Snow versions if you plan to dive into this."
"My favorite poem of Rilke's is found in this book. I first read it in the bathroom of the Video Saloon where it had been written with sharpie in the first stall.
"I am praying again, Awesome One" (Ich bete wieder, du Elauchter)
You hear me again, as words from the depths of me rush toward you in the wind.
I've been scattered in pieces, torn by conflict, mocked by laughter, washed down in drink.
In alleyways I sweep myself up out of garbage and broken glass. With my half-mouth I stammer you, who are eternal in your symmetry. I lift to you my half-hands in wordless beseeching, that I may find again the eyes with which I once beheld you.
I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.
I am a city by the sea sinking into a toxic tide. I am strange to myself, as though someone unknown had poisoned my mother as she carried me.
It's here in all the pieces of my shame that now I find myself again. I yearn to belong to something, to be contained in an all-embracing mind that sees me as a single thing. I yearn to be held in the great hands of your heart- oh let them take me now. Into them I place these fragments, my life, and you, God-spend them however you want."
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