The Book of Images

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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ISBN 10: 0865474680 ISBN 13: 9780865474680

Published by North Point Press, San Francisco, 1991

Language: English

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A Bilingual Edition Translated by Edward Snow. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($25.00), some rubbing. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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Title

The Book of Images

Publisher

North Point Press, San Francisco

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0865474680

ISBN 13

9780865474680

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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sequences assembled in his lifetime justifies this project, the first complete edition in English, but it begs to be superseded.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