Better Angels: On Rilke in Translation by Drew Calvert. Raum, Weltraum, Innerweltraum (space, “worldspace,” consciousness)—there’s more going on in the German lyrics than English can handle. But English readers are still invited to apprehend his message. As Gass puts it, the Elegies demand a radical openness to the world…they invite you to think of your consciousness as a resonant, harmonizing lifeform. They also invite you to reclaim the qualia stored inside your concepts—to consider human experience in its raw, exalted form. If Rilke’s poetry has any relevance to twenty-first century Americans, it’s because we worry, now more than ever, that we are losing unmediated experience. We’re busy, we’re sleepless, we’re medicated, and we’re marooned in the everyday. Keep reading here: theamericanreader/better-angels-on-rilke-in-translation/
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