Sonnets to Orpheus - Couverture souple

Rilke, Rainer Maria

 
9781958972397: Sonnets to Orpheus
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1958972398 ISBN 13 : 9781958972397
Editeur : Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2024

Synopsis

2025 Indie Book Awards Finalist Poetry


"Rilke's voice from the last tumultuous young century reaches tenderly into ours. But his lush German is a language of its own. Mark Burrows has a rare gift to coax it faithfully into English. I am delighted, and so very grateful for this book." -Krista Tippett, host of "On Being"


On the centennial of the first appearance (1923) of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, award-winning translator Mark Burrows reveals their depth and meaning with a brilliant new introduction and translation.


This new translation captures the lyric beauty of Rilke's poems, honoring their syntactic peculiarities and grammatical complexities as few translators have dared to do. Burrows' versions maintain the essential strangeness of language and abruptness of metaphor by which the sonnets attain their distinctive character in German. Burrows' approach replicates what one reviewer describes as the poems' "dazzling obscurity," refusing to resolve the deliberate difficulties Rilke's formulations present. The effect invites readers to linger with these sonnets, allowing themselves to be shaped in their encounter with them.


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À propos de l'auteur

Mark S. Burrows is a Rilke scholar, award-winning translator, and poet, and his academic and popular writing explores the intersection of spirituality and the arts. A winner of the Witter Bynner Prize in Poetry, his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in the US and abroad. Known internationally for his work on Rilke, he is the translator of Rilke's Prayers of a Young Poet, which includes many of Rilke's best-loved poems that later appeared in The Book of Hours. He has also co-authored three volumes of poems inspired by Meister Eckhart, most recently Meister Eckhart's Book of Darkness and Light. www.soul-in-sight.org

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Éditeur
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1958972398
ISBN 13 
9781958972397
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
190
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Personne responsable
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