Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke : a 150th anniversary reader / translations by Donald Mace Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926, author.

Contributor:

Williams, Donald Mace, translator.

Language:

English

German

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 140 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Texas : Stoney Creek Publishing, [2025]

Language Note:

Text in translated English and parallel German.

Summary:

"Rainer Maria Rilke wrote many short lyric poems of remarkable beauty and intensity. In honor of Rilke's 150th birthday, Donald Mace Williams has selected some of the best and brought these works of one of the 20th century's most influential poets to English-speaking audiences. These translations capture the eloquences and character of Rilke's own words while preserving the metrical verse of the original poems -- which are presented along with the English translations. Williams's translation of "The Girl Grown Up" won the 2024 Der Hovanessian Translation Prize. The contest judge, Professor George Kalogeris, found that translation "exquisitely beautiful." -- Back cover.

Contents:

From The hour book = Aus Das stunden-buch. Untitled ["I live out my life"] = Ohne titel ["Ich lebe mein leben"]

Untitled ["I come upon you"] = Ohne titel ["Ich finde dich"]

Untitled ["I am, you anxious man"] = Ohne titel ["Ich bin, du ängstlicher"]

Stanzas = Strophen

Untitled ["What will you do, God?"] = Ohne Titel ["Was wirst du tun, Herr?]

Untitled ["Put out both eyes"] = Ohne titel ["Lösch mir die augen aus"]

Untitled ["Oh Lord, give us each"] = Ohne titel ["O Herr, gib jedem"]

Untitled ["Perhaps in heavy mountains"] = Ohne titel ["Vielleicht, daß ich durch schwere berge"]

Untitled ["My life is not"] = Ohne titel ["Mein leben ist nicht"]

Untitled ["In the deep nights"] = Ohne titel ["In tiefen nächten"]

Untitled ["Red barberries by now"] = Ohne titel ["Jetz reifen schon"]

Untitled ["I am alive"] = Ohne titel ["Ich lebe grad"]

From The book of pictures = Aus Das buch der bilder. Autumn = Herbst

Evening = Abend

Autumn day = Herbsttag

Entrance = Eingang

Complaint = Klage

The angels = Die engel

The toper's song = Das lied des trinkers

From a childhood = Aus einer kindheit

A recollection = Erinnerung

The orphan's song = Das lied der waise

At the brink of night = Am rande der nacht

To be spoken at bedtime = Zum einschlafen zu sagen

In fear = Bangnis

The neighbor = Der nachbar

The solitary man = Der einsame

Bridge by the carousel = Pont du carrousel

Loneliness = Einsamkeit

The boy = Der knabe

From an April = Aus einem April

Prayer = Gebet

People at night = Menschen bei nacht

From New poems = Aus Neue gedichte. The panther = Der panther

The last evening = Letzter abend

Spanish dancer = Spanische tänzerin

The swan = Der schwan

Self portrait from the year 1906 = Selbstbildnis aus dem jahre 1906

Woman going blind = Die erblindende

The girl grown up = Die erwachsene

A woman's fate = Ein frauenschicksal

Blue hydrangea = Blaue hortensie

The gazelle = Die gazelle

Love song = Liebes-lied

Before the summer rain = Vor dem sommerregen

Death experience = Todes-erfahrung

Roman sarcophagi = Römische sarkophage

Departure = Abschied

The poet = Der dichter

The donor = Der stifter

Saint Sebastian = Sankt Sebastian

Buddha = Buddha

The carousel = Das karussell

From New poems, second part = Aus Neue gedichte, zweiter teil. Black cat = Schwartze katze

A wrinkled woman = Eine welke

Archaic torso of Apollo = Archäischer torso Apollos

Corpse-washing = Leichen-wäsche

Piano practice = Übung am klavier

Leda = Leda

The burned-over place = Die brandstätte

Lady on a balcony = Dame auf einem balkon

Lady before the mirror = Dame vor dem spiegel

The sundial = Die sonnenuhr

From Uncollected poems = Aus Nicht eingesammelte gedichte. The loved one's death = Der tod der geliebten

Untitled ["Death is great"] = Ohne titel [Der tod ist groß]

Untitled ["Workmen we are"] = Ohne titel ["Werkleute sind wir"]

Untitled ["That which the flying birds"] = Ohne titel ["Durch den sich vögel werfen"]

Untitled ["Tears, tears that burst"] = Ohne titel ["Tränen, tränen die aus mir brechen"]

Untitled ["Lifting my glance"] = Ohne titel ["Hebend die blicke"]

Untitled ["We waken now"] = Ohne titel ["Nun wachen wir"]

Death = Der tod

Untitled ["Brother body is poor"] = Ohne titel ["Bruder körper ist arm"]

Untitled ["The bird calls are beginning"] = Ohne titel ["Die vogelrufe fangen an"]

Full power = Vollmacht

Untitled ["Ah, loose in the wind"] = Ohne titel ["Ach, im wind gelöst"]

Wild rosebush = Wilder rosenbusch

Moonlit night = Mondnacht

The king of Munster = Der könig von Münster

Untitled ["That is yearning"] = Ohne titel ["Das ist die sehnsucht"]

Untitled ["You come and go"] = Ohne titel ["Du kommst und gehst"]

Knight = Ritter

End of autumn = Ende des herbstes

The deranged ones = Die irren

Madness = Der wahnsinn

Sacrifice = Opfer

From The sonnets to Orpheus = Aus Die sonette an Orpheus. Orpheus I, 1

Orpheus I, 7

Orpheus I, 9

Orpheus I, 14

Orpheus I, 15

Orpheus I, 18

Orpheus I, 19

Orpheus I, 21

Orpheus I, 24

Orpheus I, 25

Orpheus II, 2

Orpheus II, 4

Orpheus II, 6

Orpheus II, 20

Orpheus II, 23.

Notes:

Includes index (pages 135-140).

From 'The Hour Book', 'The Book of Pictures', 'New Poems', and the second part of 'New Poems (1902-1908)'.

ISBN:

9781965766347

196576634X

OCLC:

1518185424

Publisher Number:

90103033523