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Originally published as four clothbound editions (The Roses and The Windows, The Astonishment of Origins, Orchards, and The Migration of Powers), this large paperback brings together all of Rilke's French poems, as well as his hitherto unpublished Dedications and Fragments, in an exquisite English translation by A. Poulin, Jr.Before Poulin's important efforts, it wasn't widely known that Rilke―often deemed one of modernity's finest writers for his work in German―also wrote over 400 poems in French. These lyrics were composed toward the end of Rilke's life, after he had produced his masterworks, Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. Yet the French poems are entirely of a piece with Rilke's characteristic themes, subjects, moods, and images. As Poulin notes in his Preface to The Complete French Poems: "The French lyrics [are] small poems of careful attentiveness to the things of this world [and] to the elusive states of being in which the world is poetically transformed." Read more

ISBN10 1555973612
ISBN13 978-1555973612
Edition First Edition
Language English
Publisher Graywolf Press
Dimensions 5.58 x 1.11 x 9.84 inches
Item Weight 2.78 pounds
Print length 392 pages
Publication date April 1, 2002

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