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A review by yeller
New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke
4.0
This is a truly amazing book of poems for me, as someone who spends most of their poetry describing images to convey stories and emotions. Rilke, particularly in the second half, has the ability to write paintings. Due to tiredness, I can't truly explain effectively except to say that the sound and imagery make some of the best poetry I've read in an extremely long time.
Particularly useful in this volume was the notes at the bottom. The only problem with his poems, and the only reason it does not have the full five stars, is because sometimes they are so purposefully abstract all there is is pretty sound and imagery.
Particularly useful in this volume was the notes at the bottom. The only problem with his poems, and the only reason it does not have the full five stars, is because sometimes they are so purposefully abstract all there is is pretty sound and imagery.