This new selection, drawing primarily on Rilke's extremely rich middle period, the first decade of the 20th century, and concluding with a selection from his late Sonnets to Orpheus, offers a clear, powerful, and contemporary Rilke.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is considered one of the most important German-language poets of the modern age. Rilke succumbed to leukemia at Val-Mont, Montreux in December 1926.
