Prayers of a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Prayers of a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke
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This volume marks the first translation of these prayer-poems into English. Originally written in 1899, Rilke wrote them upon returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia. His experience of the East shaped him profoundly. He found himself entranced by Orthodox churches and monasteries, above all by the icons that seemed to him like flames glowing in dark spaces. He intended these poems as icons of sorts, gestures that could illumine a way for seekers in the darkness. As Rilke here writes, "I love the dark hours of my being, for they deepen my senses."
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- Published on: 2015-06-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .50" w x 5.56" l, .31 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 112 pages
Prayers of a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke Review In the spring of 1899, the 23-year-old German poet Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Moscow for the first time, to be overwhelmed by the Orthodox Ester. The following autumn, now living in Berlin and assuming the literary identity of a Russian monk, he poured out the 67 poems that the American academic Mark Burrows as the Prayers of a Young Poet. Rilke wrote furiously up to nine poems a day, or night, between 20 September and 14 October. His work echoed the identity of the solitary priest he represented, writing in a verse letter to his superior: I look out across the land; I listen, pray, read, and sometimes paint an icon of St. Nicholas or the holiest one in in the Stoglav style — more than this I can’t manage. In his search for God, in his celebration of the created and creative world, and through his negotiations between art and faith, Rilke represents the aspirations of many poets looking beyond horizons ruled by humanity. Much of Rilke’s work emerges from exploratory darkness: “I believe in nights.” Weather conditions theology. The poet-monk brings to his cell experiences from the storms lashing the surrounding forest as metaphors for his wrestling matches with religious possibilities. He takes ideas from the books he reads, and meditates on them in the anguished woods. He struggles to find God, but also luxuriates in his closeness. Christ appears fleetingly, as “Your Son” in one poem, and through “the wondrous play of powers …rising in the treetops like a resurrection” in another. The monk, like Rilke, remembers a great church in Moscow where “the dome is full of Your Son,/ binding the whole church as one …” This anonymous “least among monks, an Apostle,” seeks to label God by his discerned qualities: “You stone … You wind … Your dark being.” By the end of the book, the monk is welcoming another “superior,” a survivor among the blind singers who wandered among the Ukrainian poor. The monk’s presence reminds him of all the songs he has forgotten. So Rilke adds a postscript of hope to the holy search of his adopted pilgrim.—Martyn Halsall, Church Times
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Rilke wrote these poems in 1899 after returning to Germany from his first trip to Russia, calling them simply “the prayers.” They reflect the intensity of his experience of the East, voicing his fascination with Orthodox churches and monasteries. The icons, so different than the religious art he encountered on an earlier trip to Italy, seemed to him like flames glowing in dark spaces. These luminous prayers gesture as verbal icons, their images illumining a way in the darkness for seekers of the sacred. As he here writes:
I love the dark hours of my being,
for they deepen my senses . . .
From them I’ve come to know that I have room
for a second life, timeless and wide.
“How perfect that Mark Burrows is as fine a scholar as he is a poet. His understanding of ‘the young poet’ is subtle and rare; his knowledge of Rilke’s language and intentions is rich and deep. It is incredible that it’s taken so long to have these prayers in a single song as they were intended, but every line in this exquisite collection rewards the wait.”
—Dr. Stephanie Dowrick, author of Seeking the Sacred and In the Company of Rilke
From the Back Cover A ground-breaking volume that presents, for the first time in English, these prayer-poems as Rilke intended them"This extraordinary early-draft form of some of Rilke's most famous poems somehow evokes, for me, Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks--it shows the same mix of surety, roughness, genius, and the sense of precipitous creative speed. Rilke's poetry always reminds us what a direct pondering of intimacy and depth might look like. I am most grateful for these muscular translations and Mark Burrows' extended introductory comments, offering entrance to a body of work until now unavailable to English-language readers." --Jane Hirshfield, poet and translator; author most recently of "Come, Thief: Poems" ""Prayers of a Young Poet" is a hauntingly beautiful book. Mark Burrows' splendid translation renders the passion and the pathos of the anonymous young monk who sings these love songs to the Lord and somehow speaks our hidden desire. In these pages, Rilke dances in the dark to the tune of his own poems, his reluctant partner the elusive God he woos. The effect is irresistible: an invitation to join in the dance no reader can refuse." --Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, poet and author of "Saint Sinatra & Other Poems" "Rilke's praying monk begins with the time-honored conventions of his religious tradition, then moves beyond them to the dark silences of forest and dream where God waits to be discovered anew. In these startling poems brought to us in Mark Burrows' lucid translation, metaphor gives way to metaphor, as each verbal foray into the divine courts a mystery that can be approached but neither comprehended nor defined."--Peter S. Hawkins, Professor of Religion and Literature, Yale Divinity School
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Unique View into an Extraordinary Mind By Willie Sordillo What makes this book exceptional is the insight provided by author Mark Burrows in the preface, introduction and afterward. Burrows' scholarship and understanding of both poetry and faith illuminate his sensitive translations, giving the reader a context in which to see into the developing mind of a young genius grappling with his own faith in terms which, on the surface, seem contradictory, at least in terms of conventional metaphors for spiritual experience. Instead of light and the heavens above, we find spiritual formation and transformation revealed in shadow and the depths.This thin volume is best read slowly and with repetition. It is remarkably contemporary in the way in which it challenges our assumptions, and perhaps even our beliefs, by offering not only a fresh understanding of what it means to be a person of faith, but a way which steers clear of easy answers and glib cheerleading where belief becomes just another pop culture phenomenon. Burrows' book is at once a loving gift and a profound challenge to those who would simplify the complex and erase the mystery.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Meet Rilke, the poet and modern theologian. By Rev. Richard Chrisman, Ph.D. Mark Burrows performs an invaluable spiritual service today by presenting the Rilke to us who turns out to be a modern theologian. What a surprise it is to overhear an absolutely unique conversation with God, which is what these poems are. These prayers, as Rilke calls them, reflect a Christianity fully come-of-age, having divorced itself from the shopworn anthropomorphisms of his, and our own, time. How refreshing to meet a Christian who is neither a conventional believer nor seeker but who speaks frankly as a co-creator of and with the Creator. For those confused by such an unorthodox religious posture, Burrows' introduction will help by showing Rilke's connection with Russian Orthodoxy where the poet experienced what can only be called an interactive revelation. There Rilke experienced God in what is for once a true relationship, that is, one where each is affected and changed by the other. In this, Rilke seems to have anticipated the idea of the "consequent nature of God" described by process theologians. It's a little cheeky, and deeply reverent. Moreover, it's a spirituality that doesn't say good-bye to religion. Spoken in the persona of a monk, in Russia considered the exemplar of true spirituality (in contrast to the clergy), Rilke's prayers come from a traditional place with the existential force of a psychological and social realist. I believe Rilke would have qualified for adoption as the poet of the apophatic tradition. Not a rosy Christianity at all, maybe one more like Dostoievky's. So Burrows has given us with this excellent sheaf of poems a devotional handbook for the modern man or woman, a liturgy suited for the religiously averse who have not thrown out the religious baby with the bathwater.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Poetic Prayers By James R. V. Matichuk I do not know German so my enjoyment of Rilke is mediated to me through a translator. Mark Burrows does a deft job of bringing these poems to life in his publication of Prayers of a Young Poet. Between September 20th and October 14th, 1899, Rilke composed sixty-eight poems utilizing the voice of an old Russian Orthodox monk. These poems would later be published as the first part of The Book of Hours; however these early poems are arranged chronologically here with Rilke's prose narration. This makes the entire collection one cohesive work and Rilke gives interpretive clues to understanding some of these poems. Sometimes Rilke gives the setting and occasion for each poem and even the subject troubling the mind of the monk.Burrows includes an introductory essay and an Afterword on reading and translating Rilke. These essays themselves are worth the price of the book, but the real treat is reading Burrows translations. This is the first time these poems have been translated into English in this format and there is a freshness to them.These poems are prayer poems. Rilke's prayers (or the prayer of the old monk of the poems) dovetails nicely with my own prayers in places. Rilke's monk is full of spiritual longing, sees the transcendence of God and the interconnection of all things. At other points Rilke's meanings are opaque and challenging. Poetry like this is not made for quick consumption but should be carefully chewed and digested. There is a lot here.Rilke's monk does not address God directly but calls him, most often, "You." Here is [11] from this collection:You, darkness from which I come,I love you more than the flamethat bounds the world,shiningin a single ringbeyond which no creature knows of it.But the darkness seizes everything,floods and flames-how it grasps them,people and powers . . .And it is possible that a great strengthstirs in my neighborhood:I believe in nights.This poem and others speak of God-transcendent and immanent. however Rilke also explores the themes of poetry and iconography, death and mortality, faith and love, doubts and questions and the solitary self. I love the words of these poems for the way they play in my ears. This is really a beautiful collection written by a young Rilke (before he wrote Letters to a Young Poet). I found Rilke's old monk fascinating, occasionally irreverent (or perhaps just odd) but always interesting. I would not consult Rilke's monk for spiritual guidance, except at one point: the poetic voice of these poems prays honest prayers and does not hide behind platitudes and pretense. These are simple and beautiful offerings.I highly recommend this book to any fellow lover of poetry or appreciator of Rilke. I give this book five stars: ★★★★★Thank you to Paraclete Press for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for this review.
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