Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is u

Long considered the definitive English translation of Rilke's brilliant andhaunting masterworks, A. Poulin's edition of Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus

Through most of the 1910s, Rilke had suffered from a severe depression that had kept him from writing. He had begun his Duino Elegies in 1912, and completed par

Intimately connected in themes and regarded as the poet's masterpieces, these verses offer meditations on love, death, God, and the meaning of life. This editio