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Sonnets to Orpheus

by Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Translated by Martyn Crucefix ...

Translated by Martyn CrucefixIn 55 sonnets Rainer Maria Rilke plays an astonishingset of philosophical and sensual variations on theOrpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature,art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice -all are encompassed in poems that spark with insightand invention, among the most joyful and light-footedthat Rilke ever wrote.'All poetry resists ... Read more

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Translated by Martyn CrucefixIn 55 sonnets Rainer Maria Rilke plays an astonishingset of philosophical and sensual variations on theOrpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature,art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice -all are encompassed in poems that spark with insightand invention, among the most joyful and light-footedthat Rilke ever wrote.'All poetry resists
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Change Your Life

by Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Translated by Martyn Crucefix ...

Series series Pushkin Press Classics
**“Crucefix’s translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.” – Philip PullmanA new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke’s most essential work – the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life**In dazzling new translations of 142 poems by the acclaimed Martyn Crucefix, Rilke beguiles with fresh insight and mystery.Rainer Maria Rilke ... Read more

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**“Crucefix’s translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.” – Philip PullmanA new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke’s most essential work – the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life**In dazzling new translations of 142 poems by the acclaimed Martyn Crucefix, Rilke beguiles with fresh insight and mystery.Rainer Maria Rilke
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In Case of Loss

by Lutz Seiler ...

Translated by Martyn Crucefix ...

In Case of Loss reveals Seiler's essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Beautifully anecdotal and associative, they throw a light on literature and his East German background, including the Soviet-era mining community he grew up in, and are full of insight, humanity and an attention to overlooked objects and lives. ... Read more

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In Case of Loss reveals Seiler's essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Beautifully anecdotal and associative, they throw a light on literature and his East German background, including the Soviet-era mining community he grew up in, and are full of insight, humanity and an attention to overlooked objects and lives.
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Ploughshares Winter 2022-2023

by Ladette Randolph, John Skoyles, Alice Jolly, Natalie Bakopoulos, Carmen Giménez Smith, Grace Li, Sara Elkamel, Mimi Schwartz, Kirsty Gunn, Lily Lloyd Burkhalter, Sarah M. Brownsberger, John Balaban, Sven Birkerts, Kashona Stevens, Serkan Gorkemli, Keith S. Wilson, Jim Whiteside, Donna Vorreyer, Ginny Threefoot, Shirley Stephenson, Matthew Sumpter, Nora Hikari, David O'Connell, Charles Rafferty, D. Nurkse, Deshawn McKinney, Jenny Molberg, Cate Lycurgus, Zach Linge, You Li, Christina Hutchins, David Kirby, Maureen Langloss, Luci Huhn, Kate Gaskin, Melissa Fite Johnson, Edison Dupree, Cara Dees, Nathan Blansett, Bruce Bond, Martyn Crucefix, Nancy Feng Liang, D.M. Aderibigbe, Katie Berta ...

The Winter 2022-23 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporaryAmerican literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in avariety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton amongminnows.”The Winter 2022-23 Issue, edited by ... Read more

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The Winter 2022-23 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporaryAmerican literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in avariety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton amongminnows.”The Winter 2022-23 Issue, edited by
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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

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"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.
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The Four Quartets

by T. S. Eliot ...

Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which ... Read more

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Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which
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From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff clearly demonstrates how he doesn’t belong–nor does he try to.In ... Read more

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From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff clearly demonstrates how he doesn’t belong–nor does he try to.In
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Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...

Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Fausthas made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust*,* Part I, ... Read more

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Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Fausthas made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust*,* Part I,
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A Year with Rilke

Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke

by Anita Barrows, Joanna Macy ...

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The Best American Essays 2013

by Cheryl Strayed ...

Series series The Best American Series
Curated by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild, this volume shares intimate perspectives from some of today's most acclaimed writers.As Cheryl Strayed explains in her introduction, "the invisible, unwritten last line of every essay should be and nothing was ever the same again." The reader, in other words, should feel the ground shift, if even only a bit. In this edition of the ... Read more

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Curated by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild, this volume shares intimate perspectives from some of today's most acclaimed writers.As Cheryl Strayed explains in her introduction, "the invisible, unwritten last line of every essay should be and nothing was ever the same again." The reader, in other words, should feel the ground shift, if even only a bit. In this edition of the
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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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**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
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Poems

by Rainer Maria Rilke ...

The present book is a collection of poems of a celebrated modern Bohemian-Australian poet René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke. ... Read more

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The present book is a collection of poems of a celebrated modern Bohemian-Australian poet René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke.
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