Geoffrey Lehmann presents Fifty Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

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About the book:

Fresh, beautiful new translations of one of the most important poets of all time, publishing in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke's birth.

Rilke is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, revered throughout the world. Geoffrey Lehmann has selected fifty of Rilke’s finest poems from the two volumes of New Poems, considered the center of gravity of Rilke’s achievement. Lehmann’s refined ear and perfect mastery of English verse form give his renderings of Rilke a precision and poise equal to that of the German originals. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Rilke’s birth, a master poet lives anew.

Geoffrey Lehmann is an Australian poet. His Spring Forest was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1994, and his Poems 1957–2013 won the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2015. He co-edited with Robert Gray Australian Poetry Since 1788. His most recent book is Evolutionary Geopolitics: The Road to Human Egalitarianism. He lives in New South Wales.

Edwin Frank is the editorial director of New York Review Books and the author of Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.

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