This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one
aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke's poetry as a musician
might play Debussy's Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of
language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke's gentle
disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his
acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people,
animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer. The cut
flowers gently laid out on the garden table "recovering from their
death already begun" in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread
now visible now faint through most of this book. And because of the
flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and
because of gentleness, hands-agents of gentleness throughout
Rilke's poetry-enfold these pages. The German word leise (gentle,
tender, quiet) weaves the first thread; the second is woven by
flowers, then by girls' hands, then by angels, the beloved, the
poor, the dying and the dead, animals, birds, dogs, fountains,
things, vanishings. The purpose of this essay is to experience and
to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades Rilke's work, how
his poetry might gently inspire us to become more gentle people.
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