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The Book of Hours

By (author) Rainer Maria Rilke, Translated by Edward Snow

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Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilkeâ€™s distinctive voice and visionâ€”where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery, where first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but intimately candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity. â€œWhat will you do, God, when I die?â€ Rilkeâ€™s speaker asks, passing through love, fear, guilt, anger, bewilderment, loneliness, tenderness and exaltation in his search for meaning. In this dual-language edition, Edward Snow, â€œthe most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilkeâ€™s contemporary translatorsâ€ (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post), makes Rilkeâ€™s achievement accessible as never before in English. Snow combines striking fidelity to the German text with an uncanny ability to convey not just its tones and cadences but the captivating psychological presence that animates Rilkeâ€™s best poems. Mystical and moving, The Book of Hours retains its power to astonish.

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