Duino Elegies - by Rainer Maria Rilke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic</i><br><i>orders? and even if one of them pressed me</i><br><i>suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed</i><br><i>in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing</i><br><i>but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, </i><br><i>and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains</i><br><i>to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.</i><br>-from The First Elegy <p/>Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of <i>New Poems</i> as well as in T<i>he Book of Images</i> and <i>Uncollected Poems</i>, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English. <p/>Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With their symbolic landscapes, prophetic proclamations, and unsettling intensity, these complex and haunting poems rank among the outstanding visionary works of the century.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"I have been engrossed in English versions of the <i>Duino Elegies</i> for years, and Snow's is by far the most radiant and, as far as I can tell, the most faithful . . . Reading this rendition provided new revelations into Rilke's symbolic landscapes of art, death, love, and time." --<i>Frederic Koeppel, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis)</i> <p/>"This translation of the <i>Elegies</i> is the finest that I have ever read . . . Snow has gradually been building a reputation as Rilke's best contemporary translator in English. His version of the <i>Elegies</i> should cement that reputation, and elevate it." --<i>Brian Phillips, The New Republic</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Edward Snow</b> has received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his many renderings of Rilke. The author of <i>A Study of Vermeer</i> and <i>Inside Breughel</i>, he teaches at Rice University.</p>
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