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Two translations from Rilke's French at Language and Culture
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- James Owens
- Ein Klage-Himmel, "a lament-heaven," from Rilke's "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes." Poetry's post-rupture, post-lapsus, post-death-of-Eurydice dream of recreating that primal world -- Eden, childhood, Orpheus's singing -- where word and thing were one.
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Congrats, they're both beautifully done, though unfortunately I'm unable to compare them with the originals. I especially like the last verse of 'Landscape in the Valais': "clarity of their vowels / quickens your consonant stone", beautiful.
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