In Praise Of Mortality: Selections From Rainer Maria Rilke's, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus - Hardcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria; Barrows, Anita; Macy, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573223034 ISBN 13: 9781573223034

Verlag: Riverhead Books, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

A new translation of two key works by the renowned twentieth-century poet includes Sonnets to Orpheus, a reflection of the writer's deep reverence for nature; and Duino Elegies, a meditation on human impermanence and its link to all life and times. 15,000 first printing.

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Anita Barrows, a scholar of German poetry, is the author of two volumes of her own poetry. She is the recipient of an NEA grant and the Contemporary Poetry Award from the Quarterly Review of Literature. Joanna Macy is a scholar of systems theory and Buddhist thought, and a student of German. Also a spiritual teacher and ecologist, she has spoken at the White House about ecology and spirituality. Together Barrows and Macy are the translators of Rilke's Book of Hours.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Riverhead Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1573223034
• ISBN 13: 9781573223034
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 155
• Herausgeber: Barrows Anita, Macy Joanna
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