{"product_id":"poems-to-night-isbn-9781782275534","title":"Poems to Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of haunting, mystical poems of the night by the great Rainer Maria Rilke - most of which have never before been translated into English\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne night I held between my hands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eyour face. The moon fell upon it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented the writer Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems, meticulously copied out in his own hand, which bore the title \"Poems to Night.\" This cycle of poems which came about in an almost clandestine manner, are now thought to represent one of the key stages of  this master poet's development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever before translated into English, this collection brings together all Rilke's significant night poems in one volume.Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the great German writers. A master of both poetry and prose, he is best known for \u003ci\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/i\u003e.O now we have, with what whimpering\u003cbr\u003e caressed ourselves, shoulders and eyelids.\u003cbr\u003e And night has withdrawn into the rooms\u003cbr\u003e like a wounded beast, in pain through us.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Were you elected from all for me,\u003cbr\u003e was the sister not sufficient?\u003cbr\u003e Lovely as a valley to me was your essence,\u003cbr\u003e and now too, from the prow of the heavens \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e it bows down an unfailing apparition \u003cbr\u003e and he takes possession. Where to go?\u003cbr\u003e Alas, with the gesture of mourning\u003cbr\u003e you incline towards me, un-consoled.","brand":"Pushkin Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301423042789,"sku":"NP9781782275534","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781782275534.jpg?v=1742924278","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/poems-to-night-isbn-9781782275534","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}