Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems [Paperback]

Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), J. B. Leishman (Translator)

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Text: English, German (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Paperback: 122 pages
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation; As edition (October 1977)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811206513
• ISBN-13: 978-0811206518
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,520,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not the best introduction to the works of Rilke, February 28, 2009

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This review is from: Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems (Paperback)

For anyone interested in learning about Rilke and reading his poetry, this book isn't the best introduction. It's a collection of poems taken from Rilkes' "Book of Hours," "The Book of Images," "New Poems," Requiem," "Duino Elegies," and Sonnets to Orpheus."

If I knew that it was an anthology, I probably wouldn't have bought it. The poems chosen for the book were hand-picked by Theodore Ziolkowski and I definitely think he could have done a better job.

1. from Autumn- "And night by night, down into solitude/the heavy earth falls far from every star."