About this title: This book brings together, in addition to many other poems, selections from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus, and The Book of Hours.
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage, New York, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679722014ISBN:0679722017
Description: Good. No Jacket. 0679722017 This book has some shelf wear as well as marks on the cover and pages. This book is 336 pages of poetry from Rainer Maria Rilke. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
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Description: Soft cover. a collection from the master, expertly translated by the great Stephen Mitchell. clean text--NO writing. Toucho f wear to cover. prevous owner gift inscription on first page. read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679722014ISBN:0679722017
Description: Very Good- As issued No Jacket. Slight spine lean, corner bumps, small wrinkle/dent to the right edge of front cover, small stains to the bottom edge of front cover, handling creases to the front cover, and other light shopwear. Bilingual Edition(English and German) edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell with an introduction by Robert Hass. read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Paperback 5 1/4" x 8"
Publisher: Vintage International, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679722014ISBN:0679722017
Description: VG-, corners/spine ends a little worn, cover a little rubbed, 357pp. +1ad German on left-hand page, English translation on right-hand page, ISBN 0-679-72201-7, read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679722014ISBN:0679722017
Description: Very Good + 8vo-over 7"-9" tall. Trade paperback. Some light edgewear. Very tight binding. No markings. College bookstore sticker on back cover. 356pp. Edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1989-03-01
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679722014ISBN:0679722017
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Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage International
Date Published: 1982
Description: Introduction by Robert Hass. A bilingual edition. Bookmark of Helen Van Dongen Durant, film historian and author to the full title page. Near fine stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780394524344ISBN:0394524349
Description: Good in good dust jacket. tear at top of dust jacket. water stain on the top corner of the first few pages. Text in English, German. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 356 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780394524344ISBN:0394524349
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0394524349. Edited and translated from the German by Stephen Mitchell. Introduction by Robert Hass. First printing thus. Trace foxing on top edge, else fine in a near fine dust jacket. read more
Edition: Vintage Intl ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679722014ISBN:0679722017
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Like a brand new book, great condition. Text in English, German. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 400 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"The cover shows the book I read, translated by Flemming not Bly. Some of these poems are amazing, others I can see amazingness in them, but will need other translations to really see it."
"Rilke occupies a spot on my shelf of late-nineteenth century sturm und drang artists melding beautifully with Mahler, Bruckner, Hesse and Delequoix. Considered one of the German language's greatest 20th-century poets his haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets. (I lifted that sentence from Wikipedia, but it is exactly what I wanted to say.)
"You, whom I do not tell that all night long I lie weeping, whose very being makes me feel wanting like a cradle.
You, who do not tell me, that you lie awake thinking of me:-- what, if we carried all these longings within us without ever being overwhelmed by them, letting them pass?
Look at these lovers, tormented by love, when first they begin confessing, how soon they lie!
You make me feel alone. I try imagining: one moment it is you, then it's the soaring wind; a fragrance comes and goes but never lasts. Oh, within my arms I lost all whom I loved! Only you remain, always reborn again. For since I never held you, I hold you fast.""
"I have read many of the poems in this collection dozens of times, by a handful of different translators, and I never, ever tire of Rilke. No modern poet goes as far into himself, into "the invisible, unheard center", and returns with such gems, really revelations. Revelatory image succeeds revelatory image. Am I being a bit too grandiose? That's fine, I think Rilke is the greatest poet of the 20th century, and high praise is not praise enough. A pure writer. Mitchell's translations are gorgeous and this should be the edition that introduces the new reader to Rilke. Then read all his letters and the Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Then reread ad infinitum."
"*REVIEW* Rilke delivers. These poems will sing you to sleep and with good dreams. I give it four stars instead of five only because I only like to read this before bed and even though it's amazing, it always puts me to sleep.
*MY EXPERIENCE* I am fuzzy on when I started this one. I think it was after I got into Bukowski which would have been around '03 (ought three). The only memory I have of reading this would have been a time lying in bed on a cold winter night while I was living with my downtown (Wilmington, NC). I was working about 60+ hours a week almost 7 days a week for many months and was highly stressed out. Office type work, sales and whatnot. This was one of the few books at that time that put things in perspective."
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