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Rainer Maria Rilke on poetrybooks

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The Soul Is Here for Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures

Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature.

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Robert Bly (editor)
1999
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Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

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 were spontaneously received prayers.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows (translator), Joanna Macy (translator)
2005
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News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness

In News of the Universe, Robert Bly has assembled a uniquely cross-cultural anthology of poems that, taken together, illuminate his vision of human history over the past several centuries.

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Robert Bly (editor)
2015
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The Winged Energy of Delight: Selected Translations

Here, in The Winged Energy of Delight, the poems of twenty-two poets, some renowned, others lesser known, are brought together. A wonderful, well translated collection of spiritual poetry especially notable for the inclusion of non-Western poets not well known to Western readers.

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Robert Bly (translator)
2004
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The Book of Images (English and German Edition)

Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow (translator)
1994
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Where the Paths Do Not Go

One of the most influential poets of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke has left an indelible mark on world literature. In this groundbreaking bilingual edition, award-winning translator Burton Pike captures the music, power, and unerring precision of some of Rilke's best-known poems.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Burton Pike (translator)
2018
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The Poetry of Rilke

The Poetry of Rilke is the single most comprehensive volume of Rilke's German poetry ever to be published in English.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow (translator)
2011
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The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry

From Stephen Mitchell comes an anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions—the perfect companion to Mitchell's bestselling translation of Tao Te Ching.

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Stephen Mitchell (editor)
1993
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The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology

Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply moving poems from renowned artists including Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marianne...

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Robert Bly, James Hillman, Michael Meade
1993
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Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (English and German Edition)

The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (translator)
1995
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