Duino elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), Alison Croggon (Translator), John Kinsella
"Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the major modernist poets in the German language, notable for the lyric intensity of his work. He considered the Duino Elegies - a cycle of ten poems written in inspirational bursts between 1912 and 1922 - to be his major achievement. Twenty years in the making, Alison Croggon's revelatory new translation captures the energies of Rilke's poems with an urgent, acute clarity. 'The turbulent currents that make the Elegies so enthralling are generated by the dynamic contradictions of a mind acutely conscious of its own movements,' she writes in her afterword. 'The poems are not 'about' life: rather, they are a startling mimesis of its instability and transience'"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, German, 2022
Newport Street Books, Melbourne, 2022