Text is in English and German, first edition thus, hardcover, has a lean to the binding, bumps to the spine ends, light rubbing to the covers, and a stamped watermark to the tail corner of the first few pages. Overall, a solid, Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, light wear to the edges, and mild rubbing to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Book of Images, Bilingual Edition

Publisher

North Point Press, San Francisco, CA

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0865474680

ISBN 13

9780865474680

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition Thus.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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A bilingual edition of Rilke's 1906 collection of poems Buch der bilder , with facing pages of the German original, and English translations by Edward Snow, whose translations of other Rilke volumes have been highly praised. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Reviews

Not quite literal and not quite poetry, these translations arrive on the heels of Snow's version of Rilke's New Poems: The Other Part (1908; LJ 9/1/87). Snow's assertion that Rilke's output needs to be read in the sequences assembled in his lifetime justifies this project, the first complete edition in English, but it begs to be superseded. M.D. Herder Norton, who did not venture the complete Book of Images , remains the most welcoming of Rilke's career translators, while Robert Bly's adaptations are more magical. Snow is most successful in matching the tension in Rilke's poetic line and his calculatedly awkward vocabulary. One finishes this book with the appropriate breathless, disoriented sensation of having read a lot of Rilke. Though "images" were still important at this stage in his development (1902-06), this is already the poet who hears "words which mean nothing certain/ and yet go, go inside the ear, keep going/ into the brain and secretly on the nerve-branches/ through every limb try out leap after leap."-- Rob Schmieder, Boston
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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