The Rose Window and Other Verse from New Poems

Rilke, Rainer Maria

ISBN 10: 0688047327 / ISBN 13: 9780688047320

Published by Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1997

About this Item

8vo, 149 pp., Selected & illustrated by Ferris Cook. Bilingual edition with facing German & English texts. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket).

Seller Inventory # 008002

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rose Window and Other Verse from New Poems
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press, Boston
• Publication Date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0688047327
• ISBN 13: 9780688047320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Illus. by Ferris Cook
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

These stories from the acclaimed author present episodes from the lives of nine characters who represent diverse facets of the work and world of the writer

Reviews

Life is long and art is short in these nine stories about creativity. The writers' problems seem insuperable: his craft isolates and empties him. He exists more as an eye, a voice, or an ear than as a whole, resonant human. Some of Delbanco's writers gain fame early, some cumulatively, but all are trapped in a Beckett-like cosmic nightmare in which the dreamer (read writer ) cannot but must go on. Whether novelist, poet, or scholar, all slip below their aspirations, especially as lovers, husbands, and friends. The stories are neatly--almost transparently--structured, the settings (mostly Eastern, with a few islands to highlight isolation) sharply drawn, the dialog often almost stagily epigrammatic. The characters are distressingly alike in their discontent. Would that at least one had discovered some real joy in life or art.
- Arthur Waldhorn, City Coll., CUNY
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