While visiting russia in his twenties, rainer maria rilke. Its one of those rare reading experiences that i recognized, even as. Its one of those rare reading experiences that i recognized, even as i read it, as a book. Deeply inspired by the countrys vast landscapes, foreign architecture, and communal forms of worship, he began writing the book of hours. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Read the book of hours online, read in mobile or kindle. Book of hours, kevin youngs eighth poetry collection, moves from the death of his father to the birth of his son. Kevin young is a master poet who has offered us a transformative curation of life, death and the ways in which we deal with it all in book of hours. Download the book of hours ebook free in pdf and epub format. These fresh translations rendered by joanna macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and anita barrows.
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness t. In book of hours, kevin young s eighth poetry collection, he marks the tenth anniversary of his fathers sudden and unexpected death in poems that recount the process of bereavement and. With its dreamy, melodic expression and neoromantic mood, it stands, along with the lay of the love and death of. At the beginning of this century, a young german poet returned from a journey to russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. Rilkes book of hours as portent and guide tricycle. The last part of the book of hours, the book of poverty and death, is finally a symphony of variations on the two great symbolic themes in the work of rilke. Kevin young, director of the schomburg center for research in black culture, and poetry editor at the new yorker, is. As christ in the parable of the rich young man demands the abandonment of all treasures, so in this book. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his letters to a young poet, and now rilke s book of hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love god into being. These are the words, the numinous words, we hear before we begin.
Ive read plenty of books about grief and about coming through grief in my life, but ive never before encountered a book that gets it as right as kevin young s book of hours. Kevin young talks about loss, joy, and book of hours book of hours, kevin young s eighth poetry collection, moves from the death of his father to the birth of his son. Rainer maria rilke books list of books by author rainer. You, called forth by your senses, reach to the edge of your longing. A beautiful book of both grief and birth from the awardwinning poet whose work thrills his audience with its immediate.
Kevin young is the director of the schomburg center for research in black culture, recently named a national historic landmark. Rilke s book of hours by rainer maria rilke, 9781573225854, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Kevin young talks about loss, joy, and book of hours csmonitor. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his letters to a young poet, and now rilkes book of hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love god into being. At the beginning of the 20th century, a young german poet re. The collection was written between 1899 and 1903 in three parts, and first published in leipzig by insel verlag in april 1905. The project gutenberg ebook of poems, by rainer maria rilke. Kevin young is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including ardency. A new translation with commentary studies in german literature linguistics and culture. Rilke s book of hours a finalist for the penwest translation award the 100th anniversary edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original german text. Book of hours, kevin young s heartfelt, beautifully crafted new collection of poems, is a chronicle of a series of seismic changes in his life.
Book of hours a decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. Kevin young is a phenomenal poet, and this book winds deftly through the caverns of mourning, love, remembering, life, and loss. These fresh translations rendered by joanna macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and anita barrows, a skilled poet, capture rilke. I, 59 god speaks to each of us as we are made then walks with us silently out of the night. In the night i brush my teeth with a razor, he tells us, in one of the collections. Kevin young, author of book of hours the poet describes his new book about the death of his father and the birth of his son as having a blues sensibility. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, young has been a winner of a guggenheim fellowship as well as a finalist for the national book award for his collection jelly roll. See all books authored by rainer maria rilke, including briefe an einen jungen dichter, and the selected poetry of rainer maria rilke, and more on. These excerpts from book of hours provide only a small glimpse of why kevin young is a master of the compact verse and a master at making profound and in the poem wintering, he explains how mourning, ive learned, is just a moment, many, grief the long betrothal beyond. March 12, 2014 the book of hours, kevin young s eighth collection, tracks the emotional extremes of a fathers death and a sons birth. Kevin lowell young is an american poet and teacher of poetry.
A chronicle of the amistad rebels, winner of a 2012 american book award, and jelly roll, a finalist for the national book. Kevin young talks about loss, joy, and book of hours. I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. If you read no other book of poetry this year, this should be the one. I lost my mother not too long ago, and the poems in this collection continual struck a chord within me. Widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense germanlanguage poets, rainer maria rilke was unique in his efforts to expand the realm of poetry through new uses of syntax and imagery and in an aesthetic philosophy that rejected christian precepts and strove to reconcile beauty and suffering, life and death. Like i have come to know sorrows not noun but verb, something that, unlike living, by doing right you do less of.
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