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  • Memory Rose into Threshold Speech

    The Collected Earlier Poetry

    by Paul Celan, Barbara Wiedmann ...
    Translated by Pierre Joris ...
    Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as the major post-World War II German-language poet.Celan, a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust, created work that displays both great lyric power and an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural and political tendencies. His quest, ... Read more

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  • The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rilke's Book of Hours

    Love Poems to God

    by Anita Barrows ...
    **A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARDThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.**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 ... Read more

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  • The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus

    A Dual Language Edition

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of ... Read more

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  • The Poetry of Rilke

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Journey into the heart of German poetry with this bilingual collection of work from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.Experience a deep dive into the mesmerizing world of one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century with The Poetry of Rilke. Uncover an unparalleled collection of Rilke's finest works, elegantly translated over the course of two decades by acclaimed scholar ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Duino Elegies

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by David Young ...
    One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where the rocks dropped sharply to the sea. From ... Read more

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  • The Kraus Project

    by Jonathan Franzen ...
    "Engrossing, highly original . . . Franzen finds in...Kraus a model of how to provoke readers while at the same time getting them to do some work." ― The New York Times Book ReviewA hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, DieFackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's ... Read more

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  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems and Fragments

    by Friedrich Hölderlin ...
    Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of ... Read more

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  • Albert Einstein, The Human Side

    Glimpses from His Archives

    by Albert Einstein ...
    Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a Colorado banker who asked whether Einstein believed in a personal God. Witty rhymes, an ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • The Book of Hours

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Edward Snow ...
    **“The most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke’s contemporary translators.” —Michael Dirda, Washington PostA gorgeous new translation of one of the strongest inaugural works in twentieth century poetry.**Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke’s distinctive voice and vision—where clarity of diction meets unexpected ... Read more

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  • Duino Elegies

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece. Selected by PHILLIP PULLMAN as one of his 40 favourite books: 'For me, the greatest poetry of the 20th century.' MAGMA: 'deserves to become the standard English edition worldwide' POETRY LONDON: 'substantial, powerful and necessary work' TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE: ... Read more

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