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By Rainer Maria Rilke

ISBN-10: 0865474168

ISBN-13: 9780865474161

In 1984 Edward Snow gained the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of yankee Poets for the 1st quantity of those translations of Rainer Maria Rilke's watershed paintings, NEW POEMS, 1907. His paintings used to be praised for the resonance of the English and its faithfulness to the density and which means of the German.

Like the poems within the first quantity, those are displays of gadgets, "thing-poems" (Dinggedichte). In 1902 Rilke left Germany for Paris the place he acted because the secretary to the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Rodin's craftsman-like process, his regular self-discipline, and his relentless productiveness encouraged in Rilke a brand new poetic process: he, too will be a craftsman meticulously appropriating the area approximately him for his poetic imaginative and prescient. "Somehow," he wrote, "I too needs to come to make issues; no longer plastic, yet written things--realities that emerge from handiwork. by some means I too needs to realize the smallest uncomplicated aspect, the phone of my paintings, the tangible immaterial technique of illustration for everything."

Until this quantity, Rilke's voice had come from the internal, expressing emotions and moods. even though consistently celebrated for his mastery of word-sound, rhythm, meter, and rhyme, Rilke had written poetry usually married by means of sentimentality and insularity. NEW POEMS represented a turning aspect, an intoxication from the materiality of the world.

NEW POEMS, 1908 includes such recognized works as "Archaic Torso of Apollo," "Corpse Washing," "Buddha in Glory," and "Late Autumn in Venice." Rilke takes known figures--from a sundial to a stained-glass Adam and Eve--and refracts their presence into corporeality and spirituality. Rilke friends in the back of sculptural surfaces to the implicit wish or ache within the gadgets of the environment.

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I operate a radial drill. Unlike other drills, with a radial drill the piece rather than the machine is clamped into position and the operator moves the spindle from hole to hole. From the steel base rises a column about two feet thick and ten feet tall, with a boom that extends six feet out from the column and swings around it. The head moves along the length of the boom. From its underside drops the spindle, which holds the chuck, into which various tools—drills, reamers, spot-facers, chamfers—can be inserted.

In the simplest relation between a word and a thing, the word names the thing. Before being associated to an image, and to seal the closure of a representation, it is enough that the word refer to the thing, indicate the thing in its own site. Reference is a link both higher-strung and stronger than that of a representation to a represented object: it simply hangs the word on the thing, without the violence or precarity of an appropriation. Reference takes place—one can neither reenforce it nor compromise it.

My identity as a divergence from the world at large is sensational and unreasoning, a disharmony within my very soul with the blank that this divergence has generated. Waiting to be dispatched to another job. Noticing my tool box and green bucket filled with my most often used tools sitting just inside the front door, I feel the immaturity that has been generated in contrast to the use of those same tools. Think of the public as negated difference produced by a strategy of blanking out what a progression toward full comprehension can then seem only additional to, like something written on an empty slate.

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