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RAINER MARIA RILKE: Dance the Orange: Selected Poems

translated by Michael Hamburger and edited by Jeremy Mark Robinson

This new collection includes poems taken from the time of the great German poet’s New Poems through the Duino Elegies to the last pieces. These are some of Rainer Maria Rilke’s best works; they are intense, compact, lyrical and lucid, by turns erotic, heartfelt and mystical. Hamburger’s excellent translations have the German original facing each poem.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the greatest of all lyrical poets. Rilke is part of that group of European poets and writers which includes Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Rimbaud, Georg Trakl, Marina Tsvetajeva, and friends such as Andre Gide, Lou Andreas-Salome and Paul Valery.

Rilke was an incredibly inventive creator of poetry, who could forge the myriad states and images of love, from the delicate, detailed and subtle, to the passionate, illuminating and ecstatic.

Rilke was adept at inflecting language with blissful tones: while he could describe the many experiences of love, he found it difficult to turn them into realities, to act on his words. For him love could be a transitory, fragile state between two people. ‘Why do people who love each other separate before there is any need? Because it is after all so very temporary a thing, to be together and to love one another’. Rilke saw life as a ‘continuous flow of vicissitudes’, change following change, so that parting was inevitable, and people should become used to it (‘at any moment be ready to give each other up, let be and not hold each other back’.

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Duino Elegiesare the ten magnificent poems that defined the Austrian poet, RainerMaria Rilke’s artistic vision of life, death, eternity, and the humancondition. Marievon Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe invited Rilke to stay at her castle inDuino, onthe coast of the Adriatic Sea near Trieste.He stayed alone in the castle for about four months and, on a cold day inJanuary, 1912, when he was contemplating how to answer a business letter thathe received, he walked out into the freezing windy morning and, walking along apath by the bastions looking down at the violent waves of the Adriatic a coupleof hundred feet below him, he heard someone speak, but when he turned around,he was alone and the voice that he heard spoke the famous opening lines of theFirst Elegy: ?Wer, wenn ich schriee, h?rte mich denn aus der Engel/ Ordnungen??(?Who,if I cried out, would hear me among theAngelic/ Orders??). Dr. Gartner presents a new translation ofRilke’s magnum opus as well as of a selection of ten famous poems fromRilke’s collected works.
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Rilke is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the great twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, he constantly probed the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of expressing the everyday in poetry. This new edition–the only bilingual edition to include such a broad range of poems–fully reflects Rilke’s poetic development. It contains the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, and selected poems from The Book of Images, New Poems, and earlier volumes, and from the uncollected poetry 1906-26. The translations are accurate, sensitive, and nuanced, and are accompanied by an introduction and notes that chart the development of Rilke’s poetic practice and his central role in modern poetry. The book also includes a chronology, select bibliography, and explanatory notes that identify people and places, and include key commentary by Rilke from letters or notes.
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