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libellum_aphrodite's review
2.0
This was way more "considerations" than I was hoping for and not enough "translations." I also found the selection of poems a bit odd - at various points, Mood pulled single liners and generally seemed to pull snippets of poems that discussed love out of the context of a fuller work so meaning was lost. As a result, it was difficult for me to get into the poetry that was there, and my poetic flow kept being disrupted by boring reflections by the editor. I found his commentary distracted from rather than enhanced Rilke's work.
papelgren's review
4.0
Rilke is a force to be reckoned with and this small volume gives the reader a lot to think about. Very quick read on the face of it, but poetry demands to be re-read over and over.
miriam_navarro_prieto's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
hedgehogreads01's review
3.0
Rilke gets 5 ⭐️ and Mood gets 1 ⭐️.
Mood is absolutely serious, when he writes in the intro, that Rilke understood women better, and was better in the feminism theory than Simone de Beauvoir and other female activists of her time. De Beauvoir wasn’t up to Mood’s standards of how a feminist should write, you know. What a shame, Simone!
Mood is absolutely serious, when he writes in the intro, that Rilke understood women better, and was better in the feminism theory than Simone de Beauvoir and other female activists of her time. De Beauvoir wasn’t up to Mood’s standards of how a feminist should write, you know. What a shame, Simone!
modernviking's review
3.0
Not quite what I expected. Good, but when the 10 page essay examining a 12 word poem . . .
"resolve to be always begining -- to be a beginner!"
"resolve to be always begining -- to be a beginner!"
delaniejo's review
1.0
I think Rilke’s best work focuses on how women are more human than men are, but this collection was a crude focus on sex and how men and women come together. Very heteronormative and strange to put these together and focus on the physical exchange between people when Rilke is usually praised for his early feminist ideas of love and relationships.