A Gay Couple’s Journey Through Surrogacy: Intended Fathers

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Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature,
(1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke＊s distinctive voice and vision求where clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through love, fear, guilt, anger, bewilderment, loneliness, tenderness, and exaltation in his search for meaning.
In this dual-language edition, Edward Snow, ※the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke＊s contemporary translators§ (Michael Dirda,
), makes Rilke＊s achievement accessible as never before in English. Snow retains a striking fidelity to the German text while also conveying the captivating psychological presence that animates Rilke＊s best poems.