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Rilke - The Life of the Work (Hardcover)
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Rilke - The Life of the Work (Hardcover)
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The life of Rilke's work is in its words, and this book attends
closely to the development of that life as it unfolds over Rilke's
career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us when we read?
This is a question of the greatest interest to Rilke, who addresses
it in several poems and for whom the experience of reading affords
an interaction with the world, a recalibration of our ways of
attending to it, which set it apart from other kinds of experience.
Rilke's work is often approached in periods-he is the author of the
Neue Gedichte, or of Malte, or of the Duino Elegies, or of the
Sonette an Orpheus-as if the different phases of his work had
little to do with one another, but in fact it is a concentrated and
evolving exploration of the possibilities of poetic language, a
working of the life of words into precise and exacting forms in
dialogue with the texture of the world. This book traces that
trajectory in a series of close readings that do not neglect the
lesser-known, uncollected poems and the poems in French, as well as
Rilke's activity as a translator of Michelangelo, Shakespeare,
Barrett Browning, Mallarme, and Valery, among many others. These
encounters were part of Rilke's engagement with the world, his way
of extending the reach of his language to get it ever closer to the
ungraspable movements, the risk and promise, of life itself. One of
his best-known poems ends with the words 'You must change your
life', an injunction that can be seen to animate the whole of his
work.
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