Ebook {Epub PDF} Rilkes Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rainer Maria Rilke

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 Author: Rainer Maria Rilke.  · Book of Hours, I “Go to the Limits of Your Longing” from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God. Translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows, reprinted with permission. Read by Joanna Macy. This poem was originally read in the On Being episode “ A Wild Love for the World.”. Their audaciously self-satisfied butchering of Rilke's poetry is unbelievable, indeed beginning from the very title of the work—"Love Poems to God" is their own subtitle, not Rilke's. It is not in fact a translation at all but a perversion/5().

Rainer Maria Rilke. Rilke [] was considered one of the greatest German lyric poets of his day. He created the 'object poem' as an attempt to describe with utmost clarity physical objects, the 'silence of their concentrated reality.'. He became famous with such works as Duineser Elegien and Die Sonette an Orpheus. Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; from 'lch habe viele Brüder in Sutanen', tr. Anita Barrows Joanna Macy M ratings k ratings. "Widening Circles" from Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God. Translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows, reprinted with permission. This poem was originally read in the On Being episode "A Wild Love for the World.".

Their audaciously self-satisfied butchering of Rilke's poetry is unbelievable, indeed beginning from the very title of the work—"Love Poems to God" is their own subtitle, not Rilke's. It is not in fact a translation at all but a perversion. Buy Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Rilke, Rainer Maria (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 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.