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Shelf Sample: The Poetry of Rilke Oct 7, 2009
North Point Press has been publishing Edward Snow's translations of Rainer Maria Rilke for 25 years and has now come out with a definitive bilingual collection of more than 250 poems. The Poetry of Rilke ($50, 9780374235314/0374235317, October 13, 2009) is a handsomely produced book, and its smooth pages invite one in to poetic masterpieces. In honor of the slanting sunlight and crisp days of fall, we offer this:
Autumn Day
Lord: it is time. Your summer was superb. Lay your shadows on the sundials, and in the meadows let the winds go free.
Command the last fruits to be full; give them only two more southern days, urge them on to completion and chase the last sweetness into the heavy wine.
Whoever has no house will never build one now. Whoever is alone now will long remain so, will stay awake, read books, write long letters and wander restless back and forth along the tree-lined streets, as the leaves drift down.
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North Point Press has been publishing Edward Snow's translations of Rainer Maria Rilke for 25 years and has now come out with a definitive bilingual collection of more than 250 poems. The Poetry of Rilke ($50, 9780374235314/0374235317, October 13, 2009) is a handsomely produced book, and its smooth pages invite one in to poetic masterpieces. In honor of the slanting sunlight and crisp days of fall, we offer this: