New Poems, 1908

✍ Scribed by Rilke, Rainer Maria

• Book ID: 109808436
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 151 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781466872653

✦ Synopsis

In 1984 Edward Snow won the Harold Morton Landon Tralsation Award of the Academy of American Poets for the first volume of these translations of Rilke's watershed work, NEW POEMS (1907). His work was praised for the resonance of the English and its faithfulness to the density and meaning of the German.

Like the poems in the first volume, these are presentations of objects, "thing-poems" (Dinggedichte). In 1902 Rilke left Germany for Paris where he acted as the secretary to the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Rodin's craftsman-like approach, his steady discipline, and his relentless productivity inspired in Rilke a new poetic method: he, too would be a craftsman meticulously appropriating the world about him for his poetic vision. "Somehow," he wrote, "I too must come to make things; not plastic , but written things--realities that emerge from handiwork. Somehow I too must discover the smallest basic element, the cell of my art, the tangible immaterial...