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Rilke’s Hands
- An Essay on Gentleness
Engelsk Paperback
Rilke’s Hands
- An Essay on Gentleness
Engelsk Paperback

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This is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilke’s poetry as a musician might play Debussy’s Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilke’s gentle disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people, animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer.

The cut flowers gently laid out on the garden table "recovering from their death already begun" in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread now visible now faint through most of this book. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness, hands—agents of gentleness throughout Rilke’s poetry—enfold these pages. The German word leise (gentle, tender, quiet) weaves the first thread; the second is woven by flowers, then by girls’ hands, then by angels, the beloved, the poor, the dying and the dead, animals, birds, dogs, fountains, things, vanishings. The purpose of this essay is to experience and to examine gentleness, how it shapes and pervades Rilke’s work, how his poetry might gently inspire us to become more gentle people.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
130
ISBN-13:
9781032385099
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
103238509X
Udg. Dato:
27 maj 2024
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
139mm
Højde:
215mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
27 maj 2024
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