![Rilke, Rainer Maria](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/501/206/9780811206501.OL.0.m.jpg)
![Rilke, Rainer Maria](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/501/206/9780811206501.OL.0.m.jpg)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Rilke, Rainer Maria
by Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0811206505
- ISBN 13
- 9780811206501
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York. 1977. New Directions. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. 0811206505. Translated from the German by J. B. Leishman. 122 pages. hardcover. Jacket drawing and calligraphy by Ben Shahn. Jacket design by Gertrude Huston. keywords: Literature Translated Germany . FROM THE PUBLISHER - POSSIBILITY OF BEING is a selection of poems by one of the most moving and original writers of this century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). The title (taken from one of the SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, This Is the Creature') reflects the central concern of both Rilke's life and art: the achievement of being,' which this most spiritual yet least doctrinaire of modern German poets defined as the experiencing of the completest possible inner intensity.' The eighty-four poems included in this small volume will serve as a sound and inviting introduction to Rilke's strategies in the pursuit of being.' And just as the unicorn in the title poem has an eternal possibility of being' but only becomes visible in the minor held by a virgin, so can our own possibilities become manifest in the mirror held by the sensitive artist. The poems are chosen from THE BOOK OF HOURS (1899-1903), THE BOOK OF IMAGES (1902 AND 1906), NEW POEMS (1907 AND 1908), REQUIEM (1909), DUINO ELEGIES (1923), SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (1923), and the posthumous POEMS 1906-26. This selection was made by Professor Theodore Ziolkowski of Princeton University, who drew from the various New Directions volumes of Rilke's work translated by J. B. Leishman. inventory #6284 ISBN: 0811206505.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Zeno's
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6284
- Title
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Author
- Possibility of Being: A Selection of Poems
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0811206505
- ISBN 13
- 9780811206501
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- March 1978
Terms of Sale
Zeno's
All items subject to prior sale. Payment in U.S. dollars must accompany order. Payment methods accepted- Paypal or check. Any item may be returned for whatever reason within 10 days of receipt. California residents add 9.5 % sales tax. California dealers please include resale card and number in lieu of tax.
About the Seller
Zeno's
Biblio member since 2004
San Francisco, California
About Zeno's
Zenosbooks.com is a secondhand and out-of-print Internet bookstore. While our stock is general, we specialize in Literature, Mysteries, Latin American Literature, African-American interest, and Translated Literature.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...