Poems from the Book of Hours
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Das Stunden-Buch
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780811227582
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Description: At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever had done and ever would do again. This poet saw the coming darkness of the century, and saw the struggle we would have in our relationship to the divine. The poet was Rainer Maria Rilke, and these love poems to God make up his Book of Hours.