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From one of the most famous poets in history comes a new selection of writings to bereaved friends and acquaintances, providing comfort in a time of grief and words to soothe the soul.
Throughout his life, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke addressed letters to individuals who were close to him, who had contacted him after reading his works, or whom he had met briefly - anyone with whom he felt an inner connection. Within his vast correspondence, there are about two dozen letters of condolence. In these direct, personal and practical letters, Rilke writes about loss and mortality, assuming the role of a sensitive, serious and uplifting guide through life's difficulties. He consoles a friend on the loss of her nephew, which she experienced like the loss of her own child; a mentor on the death of her dog; and an acquaintance struggling to cope with the end of a friendship. The result is a profound vision of mourning and a meditation on the role of pain in our lives, as well as a soothing guide for how to get through it.
Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation...
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Dark Interval (Hardcover)
Rainer Maria Rilke, Ulrich Baer
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Named as one of "USA Today's" "most promising books on September
11th."
"Vivid, creative."--"Forecast"
"A smart idea...[drawing from] the incredible talent pool of New
York City writers to consecrate the attack on the World Trade
Center."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
"The wide range of writing styles and viewpoints, as well as Art
Spiegelman's striking cover art, make this anthology a popular
read."
--"Library Journal"
"The works collected here capture both the diversity of the
people of New York and how surreal the catastrophe felt for those
close to Ground Zero. A touching and memorable collection."
--Carlos Orellana, "Booklist," September, 2002
"110 Stories, with an arresting cover image by Art Speigelman,
presents a fractured view of last year's events...What we're left
with is the way the tragedy fits into individual lives, the
impression it makes on impressionable, expressive people."
--"Newsday"
"Effective in producing a wonderful sense of alienation which
allows the reader to perceive language and events afresh."
-- "Politics and Culture"
"[A] heartfelt collection of poems, recollections, and short
works."
-- "School Library Journal"
"A testament to the power of words to transform trauma into
something manageable."
--"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"
"Even if you found the event itself sufficiently searing, many
of these pieces provide a new way of approaching the devastation,
loss, bewilderment, the sense of morality-- and immorality--
connections and disconnects that it engendered." "The East Hampton
Star"
"New York University professor UlrichBaer turned to literature
to escape post-9-11 media commentary and political rhetoric...The
book creates a community of writers and a place to collect
memories."--"The Jewish Week"
New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on
9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look
and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event
unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of
journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries,
and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how
New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have
responded to 9/11.
Now, in 110 Stories, Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range
of voices that convey, with vivid immediacy and heightened
imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September. From a
stunning lineup of 110 renowned and emerging writers-including Paul
Auster, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Edwidge Danticat, Vivian Gornick,
Phillip Lopate, Dennis Nurkse, Melvin Bukiet, Susan Wheeler-these
stories give readers not so much an analysis of what happened as
the very shape and texture of a city in crisis, what it felt like
to be here, the external and internal damage that the city and its
inhabitants absorbed in the space and the aftermath of a few
unforgettable hours. As A.M. Homes says in one of the book's
eyewitness accounts, "There is no place to put this experience, no
folder in the mental hard drive that says, 'catastrophe.' It is not
something that you want to remember, not something that you want to
forget." This collection testifies to the power of poetry and
storytelling to preserve and give meaning to what seems
overwhelming. It showcasesthe literary imagination in its capacity
to gauge the impact of 9/11 on how we view the world.
Just as the stories of the World Trade towers were filled with
people from all walks of life, the stories collected here reflect
New York's true diversity, its boundless complexity and polyglot
energy, its regenerative imagination, and its spirit of solidarity
and endurance.
The editoras proceeds will be donated to charity. Cover art
donated by Art Spiegelman.
List of Contributors: Humera Afridi, Ammiel Alcalay, Elena
Alexander, Meena Alexander, Jeffery Renard Allen, Roberta Allen,
Jonathan Ames, Darren Aronofsky, Paul Auster, Jennifer Belle,
Jenifer Berman, Charles Bernstein, Star Black, Breyten Breytenbach,
Melvin Jules Bukiet, Peter Carey, Lawrence Chua, Ira Cohen, Imraan
Coovadia, Edwidge Danticat, Alice Elliot, Eric Darton, Lydia Davis,
Samuel R. Delany, Maggie Dubris, Rinde Eckert, Janice Eidus, Masood
Farivar, Carolyn Ferrell, Richard Foreman, Deborah Garrison, Amitav
Ghosh, James Gibbons, Carol Gilligan, Thea Goodman, Vivian Gornick,
Tim Griffin, Lev Grossman, John Guare, Sean Gullette, Jessica
Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, Carey Harrison, Joshua
Henkin, Tony Hiss, David Hollander, A.M. Homes, Richard Howard,
Laird Hunt, Siri Hustvedt, John Keene, John Kelly, Wayne
Koestenbaum, Richard Kostelanetz, Guy Lesser, Jonathan Lethem,
Jocelyn Lieu, Tan Lin, Sam Lipsyte, Phillip Lopate, Karen Malpede,
Charles McNulty, Pablo Medina, Ellen Miller, Paul D. Miller/DJ
Spooky, Mark Jay, Tova Mirvis, Albert Mobilio, Alex Molot, Mary
Morris, Tracie Morris, Anna Moschovakis, Richard Eoin Nash, Josip
Novakovich, Dennis Nurkse, Geoffrey O'Brien, Larry O'Connor, Robert
Polito, NellyReifler, Rose-Myriam RA(c)jouis, Roxana Robinson,
Avital Ronell, Daniel Asa Rose, Joe Salvatore, Grace Schulman,
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Dani Shapiro, Akhil Sharma, Suzan Sherman,
Jenefer Shute, Hal Sirowitz, Pamela Sneed, Chris Spain, Art
Spiegelman, Catharine R. Stimpson, Liz Swados, Lynne Tillman, Mike
Topp, David Trinidad, Val Vinokurov, Chuck Wachtel, Mac Wellman,
Owen West, Rachel Wetzsteon, Susan Wheeler, Peter Wortsman, John
Yau, Christopher Yu.
The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his
claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given
to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible
essays, Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet examines this promise by
one of the greatest poets in any tradition that even the smallest
overlooked word may unlock life's mysteries to us. Fueled by an
unebbing passion and indeed love for Rilke's poetry, Baer examines
twenty-six words that are not only unexpected but also problematic,
controversial, and even scandalous in Rilke's work. In twenty-six
mesmerizing essays that eschew jargon and teutonic learnedness for
the pleasures and risks of unflinchingly engaging with a great
artist's genius, Baer sheds new light on Rilke's politics, his
creative process, and his deepest and enduring thoughts about life,
art, politics, sexuality, love, and death. The Rilke Alphabet shows
how Rilke's work provides an uncannily apt guide to life even in
our vexingly postmodern condition. Whether it is a love letter to
frogs, a problematic brief infatuation with Mussolini, a sustained
reflection on the Buddha, the evasion of the influence of powerful
precursors, or the unambiguous assertion that freedom must be lived
in order to be known, Rilke's writings pull us deeply into life.
Baer's decades-long engagement with Rilke as a scholar, translator,
and editor of Rilke's writings allows him to reveal unique aspects
of Rilke's work. The Rilke Alphabet will surprise and delight Rilke
fans, intrigue newcomers to his work, and deepen every reader's
sense of the power of poetry to penetrate the mysteries and
confusions of our world.
The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry rests with his
claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given
to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible
essays, Ulrich Baer's The Rilke Alphabet examines this promise by
one of the greatest poets in any tradition that even the smallest
overlooked word may unlock life's mysteries to us. Fueled by an
unebbing passion and indeed love for Rilke's poetry, Baer examines
twenty-six words that are not only unexpected but also problematic,
controversial, and even scandalous in Rilke's work. In twenty-six
mesmerizing essays that eschew jargon and teutonic learnedness for
the pleasures and risks of unflinchingly engaging with a great
artist's genius, Baer sheds new light on Rilke's politics, his
creative process, and his deepest and enduring thoughts about life,
art, politics, sexuality, love, and death. The Rilke Alphabet shows
how Rilke's work provides an uncannily apt guide to life even in
our vexingly postmodern condition. Whether it is a love letter to
frogs, a problematic brief infatuation with Mussolini, a sustained
reflection on the Buddha, the evasion of the influence of powerful
precursors, or the unambiguous assertion that freedom must be lived
in order to be known, Rilke's writings pull us deeply into life.
Baer's decades-long engagement with Rilke as a scholar, translator,
and editor of Rilke's writings allows him to reveal unique aspects
of Rilke's work. The Rilke Alphabet will surprise and delight Rilke
fans, intrigue newcomers to his work, and deepen every reader's
sense of the power of poetry to penetrate the mysteries and
confusions of our world.
Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary
critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped
such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction,
speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and gender
studies, trauma studies, and critical legal studies. Shoshana
Felman has not only influenced these fields: her work has opened
channels of communication between them. In all of her work Felman
charts a way for literary critics to address the ways in which
texts have real effects in the world and how our quest for meaning
is transformed in the encounter with the texts that hold such a
promise.The present collection gathers the most exemplary and
influential essays from Felmanas oeuvre, including articles
previously untranslated into English. The Claims of Literature also
includes responses to Felmanas work by leading contemporary
theorists, including Stanley Cavell, Judith Butler, Julia Kristeva,
Cathy Caruth, Juliet Mitchell, Winfried Menninghaus, and Austin
Sarat. It concludes with a section on Felman as a teacher, giving
transcripts of two of her classes, one at Yale in September 2001,
the other at Emory in December 2004.
Angry debates about polarizing speakers have roiled college
campuses. Conservatives accuse universities of muzzling unpopular
opinions, betraying their values of open inquiry; students
sympathetic to the left openly advocate against completely
unregulated speech, asking for "safe spaces" and protection against
visiting speakers and even curricula they feel disrespects them.
Some even call these students "snowflakes"-too fragile to be
exposed to opinions and ideas that challenge their worldviews. How
might universities resolve these debates about free speech, which
pit their students' welfare against the university's commitment to
free inquiry and open debate? Ulrich Baer here provides a new way
of looking at this dilemma. He explains how the current dichotomy
is false and is not really about the feelings of offended students,
or protecting an open marketplace of ideas. Rather, what is really
at stake is our democracy's commitment to equality, and the
university's critical role as an arbiter of truth. He shows how and
why free speech has become the rallying cry that forges an
otherwise uneasy alliance of liberals and ultra-conservatives, and
why this First Amendment absolutism is untenable in law and society
in general. He draws on law, philosophy, and his extensive
experience as a university administrator to show that the lens of
equality can resolve this impasse, and can allow the university to
serve as a model for democracy that upholds both truth and equality
as its founding principles.
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