Poetry Of Rilke

For the past twentyfive years North Point Press has been working with Edward Snow Rilkes best contemporary translator Brian Phillips The New Republic to bring into English Rilkes major poetic works. The Poetry of Rilke—the single most comprehensive volume of Rilkes German poetry ever to be published in English—is the culmination of this effort. With more than two hundred and fifty selected poems by Rilke including complete translations of the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies The Poetry of Rilke spans the arc of Rilkes work from the breakthrough poems of The Book of Hours to the visionary masterpieces written only weeks before his death. This landmark bilingual edition also contains all of Snows commentaries on Rilke as well as an important new introduction by the awardwinning poet Adam Zagajewski. The Poetry of Rilke will stand as the authoritative singlevolume translation of Rilke into English for years to come.