{"product_id":"duino-elegies-a-bilingual-edition","title":"Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eorders? and even if one of them pressed me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003esuddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ein that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ebut the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eto destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-from \"The First Elegy\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of \u003ci\u003eNew Poems\u003c\/i\u003e as well as in T\u003ci\u003ehe Book of Images\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUncollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent of Rilke's German while constructing nuanced, colloquial poems in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With their symbolic landscapes, prophetic proclamations, and unsettling intensity, these complex and haunting poems rank among the outstanding visionary works of the century.","brand":"Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Edward Snow (Translator)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52006457147623,"sku":"9780865476073","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0913\/8151\/files\/9780865476073-us.jpg?v=1777057777","url":"https:\/\/neighborbookstx.com\/products\/duino-elegies-a-bilingual-edition","provider":"Neighbor Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}