From Notebooks and Personal Papers by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by David Need Ciaran Berry photos and links to accessible

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and Augustan grace’

and communal significance to Pablo Neruda or Nicolás Guillén

about seeking ways to surrender "sun-scarred lives" to the tidal dark or to welcome "orphaned slippers

with the poets reading to you in person

From Notebooks and Personal Papers by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by David Need Ciaran Berry photos and links to accessibleRainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) is recognized as one of the great poets of 20th century European modernism. From 1921 1926, he lived in southern Switzerland, in a region called the Valais. Following the completion of the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke began to work in both French and German. A collection of French poems addressed to the landscape of Valais, Quatrains Valaisans, was published in 1926. In May of that same year, Rilke sent