The Book of Images - Hardcover

Rilke, Rainer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865474680 ISBN 13: 9780865474680

Publisher: North Point Press, 1991

Synopsis

A bilingual edition of Rilke's 1906 collection of poems Buch der bilder , with facing pages of the German original, and English translations by Edward Snow, whose translations of other Rilke volumes have been highly praised. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Review

"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

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""

"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

About the Author

Edward Snow has received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his many renderings of Rilke. The author of A Study of Vermeer and Inside Breughel, he teaches at Rice University.

Edition details

• Publisher: North Point Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865474680
• ISBN 13: 9780865474680
• Binding: Hardcover