"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic""orders? and even if one of them pressed me""suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed""in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing""but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, ""and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains""to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying."-from "The First Elegy" Over th...(展开全部)

"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic""orders? and even if one of them pressed me""suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed""in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing""but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, ""and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains""to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying."-from "The First Elegy" Over th...(展开全部)

Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchel...(展开全部)

Rilke is one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. In his poetry, Rilke addresses the problems of death, God, and "destructive time," and attempts to overcome and transform these problems into an indestructive inner world.

A "profound and provocative" new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging -- in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." -- Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Hom...(展开全部)

A "profound and provocative" new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Disgraced and American Dervish: an immigrant father and his son search for belonging -- in post-Trump America, and with each other (Kirkus Reviews). "Passionate, disturbing, unputdownable." -- Salman Rushdie A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Hom...(展开全部)