Orchards by Rainer Maria Rilke - 1982

Port Townsend: Greywolf Press, 1982. stated first printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good jacket in protective mylar. Some wear to corners and board edges; some rubbing/wear to covers; some slanting to spine; pages browning; some dust staining to top edge of pages. Jacket with some wear to edges and corners; some rubbing/wear to panels; some soiling/staining to panels; age toning to panels; sunning to spine; some creasing to panels.

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.

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… Read More