{"product_id":"new-poems-a-revised-bilingual-edition-paperback","title":"New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRainer Rilke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write \"not feelings but things I had felt\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eParis was to change everything. Rilke's interest in Rodin deepened and his enthusiasm for the sculptor's \"art of living surfaces\" set the course for his own pursuit of an objective ideal. What was \"new\" about Rilke's\u003ci\u003e New Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, published in two independent volumes in 1907 and 1908, is a compression of statement and a movement away from \"expression\" and toward \"making realities.\" Poems such as \"The Panther\" and \"Archaic Torso of Apollo\" are among the most successful and famous results of Rilke's impulse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis selection from both books unites the companion volumes in a torrent of brilliant work intoxicated with the materiality of the world. Edward Snow has now improved upon the translations for which he received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and with which he began his twenty-year project of translating Rilke.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Snow\u003c\/b\u003e has received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his many renderings of Rilke. The author of \u003ci\u003eA Study of Vermeer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInside Breughel\u003c\/i\u003e, he teaches at Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42129972068487,"sku":"9780865476127","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/cf11fd1d55f4ac13384f7191c31bd3d4.webp?v=1732607288","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/new-poems-a-revised-bilingual-edition-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}