New Poems (Paperback)

Rainer Maria Rilke

ISBN 10: 1481323547 / ISBN 13: 9781481323543

Published by Baylor University Press, Waco, 2025

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Paperback. A century and a half after his birth, Rainer Maria Rilke remains woven into English-speaking culture in ways unexpected for a difficult modern poet, and especially one writing in German. Many readers will know individual titles from the two volumes of New Poems ( Neue Gedichte), presented here in full. But the vast majority of these poems are little known in the English-speaking world. In John Greening's fresh, lively translation, the tidal pull of Rilke's internal music and astonishing imagery comes to the surface alongside the poems' elaborate rhyme and meter. Although Rilke's poems are often described as Dinggedichtething-poemsthat term is more useful in helping us see the poems themselves as individual artifacts, which in turn conveys something of Rilke's style. What may be surprising to those who assume that poets write solely on inspiration is the business-like way Rilke set up a production line for the New Poems, starting with a list of a hundred or so topics and crossing them off as he went. These poems look both inward and outward, and their variety is considerablethere are tour-de-force works as well as simple, quietly affective pieces. Rilke makes formal and thematic connections across a spectrum of tone and tempo. As Greening claims, these disparate pieces coalesce to reveal something we didn't know we were waiting to find. As Greening suggests in his detailed introduction, these disparate pieces coalesce to reveal something we didn't know we were waiting to find. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Poems (Paperback)
• Publisher: Baylor University Press, Waco
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1481323547
• ISBN 13: 9781481323543
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A century and a half after his birth, Rainer Maria Rilke remains woven into English-speaking culture in ways unexpected for a serious modern poet, and especially one writing in German. Many readers will know individual titles from the two volumes of, presented here in full. But the vast majority of these poems are little known in the English-speaking world. In John Greening’s fresh, lively translation, the tidal pull of Rilke’s internal music and astonishing imagery is strengthened by the poems’ elaborate rhyme and meter. As Greening suggests in his detailed introduction, these disparate pieces coalesce to reveal something we didn’t know we were waiting to find.

About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke was a poet and novelist. He was born in 1875 in Prague to parents from the German-speaking community.

John Greening is an English poet, critic, and teacher.