Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary
Ten letters to a nineteen-year-old officer cadet who asked whether his poems were any good, answered with advice about solitude, patience and living the questions.
Ten letters from Rilke to a nineteen-year-old officer cadet who had asked whether his poems were any good, covering solitude, patience, and living the questions rather than demanding answers. This edition pairs a fresh translation with commentary by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows, who between them had spent a quarter century with the text before translating it.
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Posthumously published in German, these letters of uncommonly penetrating insight into the essence of art and love — that is, the essence of life — now come alive afresh as Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary (public library) by ecological philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and environmental activist Joanna Macy, and poet and clinical psychologist Anita Barrows
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