The Book of Hours - Prayers to a Lowly God

This is the first complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Book of Hours in more than forty years. This bilingual edition provides English-speaking readers with access to a critical work in the development of the most significant figure in twentieth-century German poetry. Kidder's delicately nuanced translation preserves Rilke's uncomplicated and melodic flow, his rhythm, and, where possible, his rhyme while remaining true to content.