Contributions

  • Babette Deutsch - Translator
  • Ursula K. Le Guin - Introduction

Publication

2018 - New Directions

Language

English

Translation of: Das Stunden-Buch

Word Count

16,000 words, Guess

Page Count

64 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL30584897M
  • ISBN-139780811227582
  • ISBN-100811227588
  • OCLC Control Number1521266979
  • Amazon0811227588
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  • The StoryGraph7127f791-dce3-4251-be58-ab676d38717b
  • Goodreads35407628

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.

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Other Editions

  • Poems from the Book of HoursPaperbackNew Directions2018-01-01

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