02103cam a2200361 i 4500 378495111 TxAuBib 20190401120000.0 050623s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005044352 9781594481567 1594481563 (OCoLC)60796231 TxAuBib rda eng ger ger Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. Stundenbuch English & German. Rilke's Book of hours : love poems to God / translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. Book of hours. 1st Riverhead rev. trade pbk. ed. New York : Riverhead Books, 2005. 257 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier While 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. Rilke’s Book of Hours 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. Rilke’s Book of Hours 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 Rilke’s Book of Hours 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. 20190401. English and German. Poetry German. Prayer Poetry. Barrows, Anita. Macy, Joanna, 1929-