Rilke duino elegies deutsch5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Just getting the opportunity to meet her would have seemed to me a gift, so I was stunned when she not only invited me to her apartment for coffee but readily expressed the hope that I might have time to be an occasional tutor who would read Rilke poems with her in German. I took a deep breath and phoned her, introducing myself as a friend of friends and a fan of her poetry. A close friend of mine, Tree Swenson (a founder, with Sam Hamill, of Copper Canyon Press), told me that Denise Levertov (1923-97) was living on campus. I WAS thirty and had just completed a doctorate in German Studies she was fifty-eight. ![]() ![]() WE MET AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY IN THE WINTER OF 1982. Rainer Maria Rilke, "You need not be afraid, God" The Book of Hours (1) Certain of this, of course, are only great ones, the ones who long for eyes. ![]() Like this they say: my life, my wife, my dog my child, and know full well that all that: life and wife and dog and child are foreign forms, with which they blindly and with their hands outstretched sometimes collide. ![]()
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