Rilke's Book of Hours

<b>A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD <p/>The 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.<br></b><br>While visiting Russia in his twenties Rainer Maria Rilke one of the twentieth century's greatest poets was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. <i>Rilke's Book of Hours</i> is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world and a work that seems remarkably prescient today one hundred years after it was written.<p><i>Rilke's Book of Hours</i> shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God or the divine--a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet and now <i>Rilke's Book of Hours</i> tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations rendered by Joanna Macy a mystic and spiritual teacher and Anita Barrows a skilled poet capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before.</p>