Rainer Maria Rilke - Where the Paths Do Not Go
Rainer Maria Rilke
Where the Paths Do Not Go
Translated from German by
BURTON PIKE
$16.00
Bilingual Edition
104 pages
August 28, 2018
ISBN 9780999261323
Distributed by Asterism (US) and Turnaround Publisher Services (UK & EU)
BIOS
RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is one of the most celebrated poets of the twentieth century. Rilke was born in Prague, lived throughout Europe, and spent his final years in Switzerland, where he wrote the Duino Elegies. He died of leukemia in December 1926.
BURTON PIKE's recent translations include Rilke's novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, among other works from German and French. He edited and co-translated Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities. He is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and German at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Where the Paths Do Not Go
Translated from German by
BURTON PIKE
In this groundbreaking bilingual edition, award-winning translator Burton Pike captures the music, power, and unerring precision of some of Rilke's best-known poems.
These renderings offer bold new insights that redefine our understanding of one of modern literature's most celebrated voices.
“Burton Pike captures the sonorousness, lyricism, and expressive intensity of Rilke’s verse with astonishing facility, while preserving the succession of ideas and images and rendering the rhythm, tone, and diction with mastery and ingenuity.” —Ross Benjamin
“With these beautifully inventive and sensitive version of some of Rilke’s most complex and important poems, Burton Pike has given us a very special gift.” —Breon Mitchell, The New York Review of Books
BIOS
RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is one of the most celebrated poets of the twentieth century. Rilke was born in Prague, lived throughout Europe, and spent his final years in Switzerland, where he wrote the Duino Elegies. He died of leukemia in December 1926.
BURTON PIKE's recent translations include Rilke's novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, among other works from German and French. He edited and co-translated Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities. He is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and German at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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Bilingual Edition
104 pages
August 28, 2018
ISBN 9780999261323
Distributed by Small Press Distribution (US) and Turnaround Publisher Services (UK & EU)
