Book record
Sonnets to Orpheus
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated from German by Alan Keele
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from German by Leslie Norris and Alan Keele and published by Camden House Press, is a book rooted in Germany. Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, translated here by Leslie Norris and Alan Keele, belongs to the strange category of books that feel both canonical and still personally dangerous. Orpheus is not just a mythic singer here. He becomes a figure for transformation, loss, animal attention, and song after grief. The sonnet form gives the book a visible architecture, but the poems keep pushing through that architecture toward breath, music, and spiritual risk. For a reader browsing the shelf, the book offers another proof that translation expands feeling as much as access.
- Publisher
- Camden House Press
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany