Pictures of God: Rilke's Religious Poetry, Including 'The Life of the Virgin Mary'
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered the most significant figure in twentieth-century German poetry. He is the author of "Letters to a Young Poet," "Duino Elegies," "The Sonnets to Orpheus" and the novel "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge." Annemarie S. Kidder, Ph.D., is associate pastor at The First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is the author of "Women, Celibacy and the Church: Toward a Theology of the Single Life" (Crossroad, 2003) and translator of theological works by Luise Schottroff, Raimon Panikkar, and Juergen Becker. She has previously translated Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God" (Northwestern University Press, 2001).