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Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations Paperback – February 17, 1994

by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), John J. L. Mood (Translator)
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An anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers.

Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections. Mood links into an essay passages from letters that show Rilke's profound understanding of men and women and his ardent spirituality, rooted in the senses.

Combining passion and sensitivity, the poems on love presented here are often not only sensual but sexual as well. Others pursue perennial themes in his work―death and life, growth and transformation. The book concludes with Rilke's reflections on wisdom and openness to experience, on grasping what is most difficult and turning what is most alien into that which we can most trust.
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    W. W. Norton & Company
  4. Publication date
    February 17, 1994
  5. Dimensions
    5.4 x 0.5 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0393310981
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0393310986
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After Such Long Experience Let House
Ah, Not Being Sundered
Also To Affirm Even Rapture
And All Never-belonging Be Yours
Are Not The Nights Fashioned From The Sorrowful
Being-silent. Who Keeps Innerly
By The Sun-surrounded Road,
Cheerful Gift From The Chillier
Come You, You Last One, Whom I Avow
Do You Also Ponder That We Are All
Everything Is Play, And Yet Plays
Force Of Gravity
From The Cycle: Nights
Give Me, Oh Earth, Pure Unmingling
Gods Perhaps Are Still Striding Along
Gong
Greek Love-talk
If You'd Attempt This, However: Hand In Hand To Be Mine
Like The Pigtails Of Quickly Grown-up Girls
The Lovers
Magic
Mausoleum
More Uncovered The Land: On Every Way Is Hometurning
Music
Now It Would Be Time That Gods Should Step Out
Play The Deaths, The Single Ones, Quickly
The Poems Praise
The Poet Praises
The Poet Speaks Of Praising
The Quinces Yellow From Their Gray Fluff
The Seven Phallic Poems: 1
The Seven Phallic Poems: 2
The Seven Phallic Poems: 3
The Seven Phallic Poems: 4
The Seven Phallic Poems: 5
The Seven Phallic Poems: 6
The Seven Phallic Poems: 7
Since I Wrote You, Sap Sprang Free
Somewhere Blooms The Blossom Of Parting And Bestrews
Strong Star, Which Needs Not The Help Which
That Which Offers Itself To Us With Starlight
These Soft
This Is The Mute-mouthed Mounting Of The Phalli
Transform Stamen On Stamen
Transformation
The Voices Warned Me So I Desisted
We Are Not To Know Why
What Fields Are Fragrant As Your Hands
Woman's Lament: 1
Woman's Lament: 2
You Declare You Know Love's Nights?
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition (February 17, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393310981
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393310986
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.5 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings

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Customers find the book illuminating, with one noting how it helps both new and seasoned readers understand Rilke's work. They describe it as wonderful and beautiful.

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Customers appreciate the depth of the book, with one noting how it illuminates Rilke for both new and seasoned readers.

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"...and commentary (especially on Rilke's epitaph) illuminate Rilke for both new and seasoned readers...." Read more

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Customers find the book readable and wonderful, with one mentioning it's an excellent introduction to Rilke's work.

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"...The idea and image of love and beauty as terrifying hits home and is so welcome in our world of no privacy and little time and space for solitude..." Read more

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  • Steve
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is the place to start
    Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2017
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    This is an excellent introduction to some of Rilke's best reflections. It was the gateway for me into his meaningful expressions and purposeful principles.
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  • childrenofsa
    5.0 out of 5 stars Rilke is our friend
    Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2012
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    Rilke says everything I need to be said. He knows that 'each of us is alone' but by and through his writing in general he gives one comfort to that very singular realization, if that makes any sense. The idea and image of love and beauty as terrifying hits home and is so welcome in our world of no privacy and little time and space for solitude and reflection. To acknowledge the difficulty in loving another person is so brave and clear-headed. Sex as connected to childhood love, and playfulness. Love the idea of two lovers' being guardians of each other's solitude. Translation is wonderful. However I do not read German, which I trust is even more beautiful than the English.

    What's important is not the answer, but the question
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  • Amber Cowan
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    Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2009
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    Nothing bad to report really. The book cover was not the same, which is a little dissapointing cuz I liked the cover shown in the picture. But other than that it got here relatively fast (it got sent back to the sender, they contacted me and re-sent it, which was nice!).
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  • S.J.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Luminous and inspired translation/commentary
    Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2012
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    I first read this bilingual edition of Rilke over 20 years ago. A former professor of religion and literature, Mood's sensitive and insightful translation and commentary (especially on Rilke's epitaph) illuminate Rilke for both new and seasoned readers. John Mood doesn't just study Rilke--he lives the poet's work. Highly recommended for Rilke lovers, it contains fragments of poetry and prose difficult to find elsewhere in translation. And the new edition has a gorgeous Art Deco cover, although is missing Mood's short bio of the previous edition for some reason. "May all never-belonging be yours!" RMR
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  • Anne Hall
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Rilke book!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2021
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    Wonderful Rilke book!
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  • James B
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2018
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    Deep! Rilke was, indeed, a writer ahead of his own time. Profound.
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  • Rilke
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read slowly. Read over a life time. Be Patient.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2015
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    Read slowly. Read over a life time. Be Patient. But most of all have this book and this translation in your home.
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  • Dorothy Stoops
    4.0 out of 5 stars Use of poetry in psychotherapy
    Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2014
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    I love his poetry As a psychotherapist I have given some of his work to my clients to help them understand situations they are struggling with and give them insight into solutions
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    on time and as described - lofty lofty text.
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  • JMH
    4.0 out of 5 stars a good book to keep
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2013
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    I was drawn to this book because a friend used some quotes from it so I bought the book to read more. It is one of those books, for me anyway, that you dip in and out of. Well laid out and well written.
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  • emma
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    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2016
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    Couldn't get into this book as its not page after page of poem but more of pieces.
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