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A Year With Rilke: Daily Readings From The Best Of Rainer Maria Rilke (2009)

by Anita Barrows(Favorite Author)

4.4 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

006185400X (ISBN13: 9780061854002)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

HarperOne

review 1: Just started using this book as a daily reader for 2013. Already a few daily entries have been luminous, and all have been worthwhile. I will say I am ambivalent about the translations, and am finding myself wanting to dig out more familiar translations for comparison to Macy and Barrow's versions. Maybe by the end of the year the turns these authors give Rilke will become familiar too, and I'll warm to them. I'm keeping an open mind.
review 2: This is the second year I have used a book of daily readings. Once again, I didn't do too well keeping up on a daily basis. But I have liked trying to be disciplined. I have a love/hate relationship with Rilke. 35 years ago I read "Letters to a Young Poet" which I still enjoy and recommend to others. That has led... more me to want to read his poetry, but that has been tough. I have struggled to appreciate poetry now for about 20 years, with very mixed success. Rilke is someone who seems genuinely deep to me. That makes him attractive, but hard. So, maybe a daily dose of "deep but hard" was more than I bargained for. In any case, I expect I'll continue to come back to Rilke, and continue to be frustrated by him. But maybe that's the mark of a great writer. less

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