In complete translation here for the first time. In ochre boards with siver type to spine. Dent to bottom of front board and moisture staining to bottom half of rear board, rear spine gutter and onto bottom of spine. Interior clean and untouched with sold binding. Jacket is unclipped ($25.00) with edgewear, small puncture/tear to middle of spine, rippling to rear panel and moisture staining to inside of rear panel with a little to inside of spine adjacent. 1st Printing.

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Title: The Book of Images - Bilingual Edition
Publisher: North Point Press, San Francisco
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0865474680
ISBN 13: 9780865474680
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

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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.

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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sequences assembled in his lifetime justifies this project, the first complete edition in English, but it begs to be superseded.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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