The Book of Images
Poems / Revised Bilingual Edition
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ISBN10: 086547477X
ISBN13: 9780865474772
Trade Paperback
280 Pages
$19.00
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Substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this 1994 edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Presented in an accessible and attractive bilingual translation (with the German and English on facing pages), this volume includes several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such as "Autumn," "Childhood," "Lament," "Evening," and "Entrance."
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Praise for The Book of Images
"Snow, who so insightfully translated the two volumes of Rilke's New Poems, has now turned to The Book of Images, one of the poet's most startling and diverse masterworks. Snow has rendered with great skill and accuracy a work both familiar and unknown, more complicated and more immediate than many have suspected, at once grave, mysterious, and beautiful."—Edward Hirsch
"How much setting straight Snow's new translation of The Book of Images accomplishes! With these sorrowing and luminous poems to lead up to Snow's two volumes of the New Poems, it is possible to gain, for the first time in English, a consistent perspective of Rilke's difficult canon, here restored and disclosed to stunning effect."—Richard Howard
