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from: Riverhead Trade
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 831.912
EAN: 9781594481567
ISBN: 1594481563
Label: Riverhead Trade
Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: November 01, 2005
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Sales Rank: 44432
Studio: Riverhead Trade
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While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written.
Rilke's Book of Hours shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine--a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now Rilke's Book of Hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations rendered by Joanna Macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and Anita Barrows, a skilled poet, capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before.
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Rating:  - Like new doesn't meet my defintion
Excellent condition of the physcial book but writing on many pages of the previous owner's thoughts which interfer with the experience of reading without preconceptions.
Rating:  - Disappointment
This work is the result of two poet/translators wanting to ride Rilke's coattails. Read the other one- and two-star reviews. They are more insightful that the gushy five-stars and more accurate. I am adding my 2 cents just to echo their thoughts. This book was disappointing after reading other. more credible translations of Rilke.
Rating:  - Rilke is timeless
Rilke's Book of Hours; Love Poems to God is a beautiful work of art comprised of both original German text and English translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. Each poem is of honesty and discovery of the spiritual world. Rilke's work is always unique, and his style is simple on the page, yet complex in meaning. He takes the reader's mind and heart to deep, dark places by exploring God and fate and everything in between. He asks questions and answers them as well. Rilke has ... Read More
Rating:  - Glad to have the German alongside the translated poems
As previous reviewers have noted, _Rilke's Book of Hours_ has its shortcommings, most notably the way in which the poems have been translated. While I am more forgiving of the translations than others, it is valid concern.
First, the German - Rilke's poetry is spiritually transcendent, moving and sublime. This collection is marvelous. However, the translations are a bit sticky. Certainly some slack must be given anyone who translates literature, poetry especially so. And while ... Read More
Rating:  - 90% Rilke, 10% Translator
Rilke wrote exceptional poetry. This book offers prayers he felt compelled to write after visiting Russia and encountering a simpler form of Christianity. It is engaging and powerful to wrestle with God and the human condition as they intersect. Rilke holds himself open and offers the reader language, terror and beauty in the face of an exceedingly complex yet personal God.
Rilke himself deserves five out of five stars. However,as has been noted in other reviews, this book bears ... Read More
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