{"product_id":"sonnets-to-orpheus-a-new-translation-bilingual-edition-paperback","title":"Sonnets to Orpheus: A New Translation (Bilingual Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark S. Burrows\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Rilke's voice from the last tumultuous young century reaches tenderly into ours. But his lush German is a language of its own. Mark Burrows has a rare gift to coax it faithfully into English. I am delighted, and so very grateful for this book.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e-Krista Tippett, host of \"On Being\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the centennial of the first appearance (1923) of Rilke's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eaward-winning translator Mark Burrows reveals their depth and meaning with a brilliant new introduction and translation.\u003c\/b\u003eThis new translation captures the lyric beauty of Rilke's poems, honoring their syntactic peculiarities and grammatical complexities as few translators have dared to do. Burrows' versions maintain the essential strangeness of language and abruptness of metaphor by which the sonnets attain their distinctive character in German. Burrows' approach replicates what one reviewer describes as the poems' \"dazzling obscurity,\" refusing to resolve the deliberate difficulties Rilke's formulations present. The effect invites readers to linger with these sonnets, allowing themselves to be shaped in their encounter with them.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark S. Burrows is a Rilke scholar, award-winning translator, and poet, and his academic and popular writing explores the intersection of spirituality and the arts. A winner of the Witter Bynner Prize in Poetry, his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in the US and abroad. Known internationally for his work on Rilke, he is the translator of Rilke's \u003ci\u003ePrayers of a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, which includes many of Rilke's best-loved poems that later appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also co-authored three volumes of poems inspired by Meister Eckhart, most recently \u003ci\u003eMeister Eckhart's Book of Darkness and Light\u003c\/i\u003e. www.soul-in-sight.org\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 190\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703928942899,"sku":"9781958972397","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2ev84oJ8MJ9781958972397.webp?v=1763344672","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/sonnets-to-orpheus-a-new-translation-bilingual-edition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}