Rilke: New Poems - Hardcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556594240 ISBN 13: 9781556594243

Verlag: Copper Canyon Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This will be the definitive edition of New Poems.

This translation of New Poems is the first complete translation of the two volumes in English that mimics the formal prowess of the German original.

Translator Joseph Cadora provides commentary on each of the 400-plus poems.

Foreword by Robert Hass.

There have only been two previous complete translations of Rilke's New Poems: J.B. Leishman's (1964, OP) and Stephen Cohn (1998). Neither is faithful to Rilke's original forms, rhyme schemes, or meanings.

Edward Snow translated the New Poems in 2001 but only included selected works in his volumes.

While there are various volumes of "selected poems" of Rilke, they include fewer than ten of the four hundred New Poems.

The New Poems mark a turning point in Rilke's career: they show Rilke becoming the poet that we know him as today. They comprise all of Rilke's mature work prior to the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus.

Rilke wrote the poems while living in Paris and working as a secretary for Auguste Rodin, and under Rodin's suggestions he

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the world's most beloved poets. Working at the cusp of the century, Rilke bridged the gap between traditional and modernist poetics. Born in Prague, Rilke traveled widely across Europe and Egypt, living for a substantial amount of time in Paris. Joseph Cadora: Joseph Cadora is a guitarist, writer, and translator whose fiction and non-fiction have been published in Southern Humanities Review, The Montserrat Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle. His collection of short stories, The Millennial Fictions, won the 2009 Eisner Prize for Prose. Poet and translator Robert Hass served as the United States Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997. He has been honored with a MacArthur "Genius” Fellowship, the National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Mr. Hass is a professor of English at University of California, Berkeley.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Copper Canyon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1556594240
• ISBN 13: 9781556594243
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 460
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