Rilke's Book of Hours Love Poems to God

Name: Rilke's Book of Hours Love Poems to God
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ISBN: 9781594481567

ISBN-10: 1594481563

ISBN-13: 9781594481567

Edition: 2005

Authors: Anita Barrows, Joanna Marie Macy, Rainer Maria Rilke

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While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hoursis the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written. Rilke's Book of Hoursshares 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 as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.99" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Preface



Introduction


Notes on the Translation


The Book of a Monastic Life


The Book of Pilgrimage


The Book of Poverty and Death


Commentary