Rainer Maria Rilke, The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams
David R. Godine; selected and translated from German and French
Winner of a 2007 NEA in Translation
“[It] feels like a dream in which you can understand perfectly a language you didn’t think you knew. Rilke’s thrilling precision and disorientations and purposefulness are all suddenly there....” —Jonathan Franzen
“Wonderfully fresh and concentrated.... In Searls we have a fascinating new interpreter.” —John Banville
“Reading these pages is like pulling out your pockets expecting to find nothing but lining, and discovering instead a neglected roll of bills. [An] original and revelatory translation...” —William Gass
Excerpts in Paris Review / on PEN.org
Publisher / Amazon