The astonishment of origins
Subtitle: French sequences
By: by Rainer Maria Rilke ; translated by A. Poulin, Jr.
Contributors: Poulin, A
Series: Poems
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926 -- Translations, English.
Notes: French and English on opposite pages.  Third in a series of 5 volumes of Rilke's French poetry, translated by A. Poulin, published by the press. The first two volumes were Saltimbanques (1978) and The roses & The windows (c1979); the 4th and 5th were Orchards (c1982) and The migration of powers (c1984).  "First printing"--P. [vi].  "The original French poems included in this book have been collected in Rainer Maria Rilke, Sämtliche Werke, zweiter Band, Gedichte: zweiter Teil, Insel-Verlag, 1958"--P. [vi].  Suites brèves = Short sequences -- Tendres impôts à la France = Affectionate taxes to France -- Les quatrains valaisans = The Valaisian quatrains.

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