The Book of Images - Bilingual Edition

Rilke, Rainer Maria and Edward Snow (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0865474680 / ISBN 13: 9780865474680

Published by North Point Press, San Francisco, 1991

About this Item

In complete translation here for the first time. In ochre boards with siver type to spine. Dent to bottom of front board and moisture staining to bottom half of rear board, rear spine gutter and onto bottom of spine. Interior clean and untouched with sold binding. Jacket is unclipped ($25.00) with edgewear, small puncture/tear to middle of spine, rippling to rear panel and moisture staining to inside of rear panel with a little to inside of spine adjacent. 1st Printing.

Seller Inventory # LPB009951RR

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of Images - Bilingual Edition
• Publisher: North Point Press, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865474680
• ISBN 13: 9780865474680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

About this title

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.

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