The Essential Rilke
- Book Review,
by Galway Kinnell (Editor), et al
Language Notes
Text: English, German (translation)
Original Language: German
About the Author
Galway Kinnell is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University. His Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1982. His most recent volume of poems is Imperfect Thirst.Hannah Liebmann, a native of Austria, received her Ph.D. in English and German literature and philology from the University of Graz. She is managing editor of an international quarterly and editorial assistant of the literary journal caesura.
Excerpted from The Essential Rilke by Galway Kinnell, Hannah Liebmann, raine Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke. Copyright © 1999. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
From a ChildhoodThe darkening was like riches in the room in which the boy sat, almost hidden from sight. And when his mother entered, as in a dream, a glass trembled in the quiet cupboard. She felt how the room betrayed her, and she kissed the boy: "Oh, you're here? . . ."Then both looked fearfully at the piano, because some evenings she'd play the child a song in which he found himself strangely deeply caught.He sat very still. His great gaze hung on her hand, weighed down by its ring, as if struggling through drifted snow it went over the white keys.
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