Sonnets to Orpheus

Name: Sonnets to Orpheus
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ISBN: 9780865477216

ISBN-10: 0865477213

ISBN-13: 9780865477216

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Authors: Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow

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Breathing, you invisible poem! World-space in pure continuous interchange with my own being. Equipose in which I rhythmically transpire. Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured, stands as the poet's final masterwork. In these meditations on the constant flux of our world and the ephemerality of experience, Rilke envisions death not only as one among many of life's transformations but also as an ideally receptive state of being. Because Orpheus has visited the realm of death and returned to the living, his lyre, a unifying presence in these poems, is an emblem of fluidity and musical transcendence. And Eurydice,…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English