{"product_id":"rilkes-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god-9781594481567","title":"Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God","description":"\u003cb\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE PEN\/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. \u003ci\u003eRilke's Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRilke's Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine--a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now \u003ci\u003eRilke's Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations rendered by Joanna Macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and Anita Barrows, a skilled poet, capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnita Barrows, a prize-winning poet and a clinical psychologist, is the author of four books of her own poetry and the recipient of an NEA grant as well as the \u003ci\u003eQuarterly Review of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e's Contemporary Poetry Award. She has been a professional translator for more than thirty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoanna Macy is a scholar of systems theory and Buddhist thought, and a student of German. Also a spiritual teacher and ecologist, she has spoken at the White House about ecology and spirituality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50593296384274,"sku":"9781594481567","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_098adc50-0946-4d89-b94e-e13aaa9473e0.jpg?v=1732114674","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rilkes-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god-9781594481567","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}