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Graywolf Press, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. Very good DJ in protective mylar, clipped. Previous owner's name and location neatly to ffep otherwise clean, unmarked and crisp.
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Orchards A Sequence of French Poems Hardcover - 1982
by Rainer Maria Rilke
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- Title Orchards A Sequence of French Poems
- Author Rainer Maria Rilke
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Publisher Graywolf Pr, Port Townsend, WA
- Date November 1982
- ISBN 9780915308330
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Orchards: A Sequence of French Poems (English and French Edition)
by Rilke, Rainer Maria; Poulin, A. Jt. - Translator
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Minneapolis, Minnesdota: Graywolf Press, 1982. First Printing Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Fine. 5" x 7 1/4. 109 Pages. A Sequence of French Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke This volume presents for the first time in English translation a fifty-nine poem sequence that Rilke wrote originally in French. A. Poulin, Jr.'s sensitive translations are accompanied by the French originals, printed on facing pages. Rilke's work in German-notably The Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet - ranks him among the very greatest and most popular poets and writers of the twentieth century. Not as well known is that fact that towards the end of his life Rilke wrote nearly 400 poems in French. As the translator has noted elsewhere, in only four years Rilke wrote more poems in a language foreign to him than most poets write in their native tongue in an entire lifetime. Orchards is the third off our books that will bring most of the French poems into English translation. Among the…
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