The Sound and Sense of Rainer Maria Rilke: A Poetry Lover's Selection for Reading Aloud and Repeated Reflection

In celebration of the centennial of the poet's death, The Sound and Sense of Rainer Maria Rilke offers active readers, an altogether new and unparalleled mix of German poems, meticulously rhymed and metered poetic renderings, literal translations for transparency, and much, much more. Still, his renderings alone are an unstinting offering in honor of the poet. They are the outcome of leisure hours lavished on the challenge of changing Rilke's rich and unforgettable German into moving and me...