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Rainer Maria Rilke has been called the most significant and compelling poet of spiritual experience of the 20th century. His exploration of the struggle between life and art and the supremacy of divine love over personal love has touched the hearts of men and women everywhere. The poems in this reading are from the selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell.

Concerned with questions of aging and mortality, A Second Space furthers 93-year-old Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz’s reputation as “arguably the greatest living poet” (Edward Hirsch, New York Times Book Review). “Milosz continues exploring his own version of the meditative lyric...

Was wäre, wenn die kleinsten Teilchen der Welt, die unsichtbaren Bausteine des Lebens zu uns sprechen könnten? Was hört man, wenn man ihr Wachsen zu körnigen Konstellationen und ihren Zerfall bis hin zur atomaren Spaltung literarisch umkreist? Dieser Frage geht Carolin Callies in ihrem Poem nach. In einer lyrischen Versuchsanordnung blickt sie statt durchs Mikroskop mit den Instrumenten der Sprache auf Einzeller, Kerne, Spreißel und erkundet ihre vielfältigen Verbindungen im menschlichen Körper wie in der Natur.

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Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition. “The poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and appreciation of words. . . . I believe that poetry is the...