PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was one of the most acclaimed German-language poets of the twentieth century. Edward Snow is a professor of English at Rice University. He is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature for his Rilke translations and has twice received the Academy of American Poets' Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. He lives in Houston, Texas.
"""Reading Rilke in English, one faces three doors: read Edward Snow, read a lesser translator, or learn German. Just as Snow has produced masterpieces in the past, his rendering of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is a revelation. Though I had read the volume before with curiosity, I found Snow’s version a page-turner. I devoured it like a velociraptor."" -- Mary Karr ""Edward Snow, that most sensitive and deft translator of Rilke’s poetry, has outdone himself by rendering the Danish writer’s prose classic in all its eerie, crepuscular shadings.… Every sentence glistens here, as childhood and manhood, past and present uncannily merge, while Malte, the protagonist-narrator, teaches himself to see. The result is a treasure to savor slowly and gratefully."" -- Phillip Lopate ""This book has been central for many young poets, in many languages, for generations. Now, Edward Snow has created a fresh, inviting version in English."" -- Robert Pinsky"
