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The final work of the Nobel Prize winner G#65533;nter Grass--a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, the world In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and moments of happiness crowd onto the page. Only an aging artist who has once more cheated death can set to work with such wisdom, defiance,...
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Folder 5: 14 pages of calligraphy in graphite and 24 pages of calligraphy in pen and ink over graphite showing accurate position (without woodcut prints) on each page, 26 x 19 cm. German text is taken from various poems that are printed in their entirety at the end of the final publication.
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Folder 1: 19 proofs of woodcuts pulled and colored by Fritz Kredel, some in more than one version, on 18 sheets of Japanese paper, size ranging from 19 x 14 cm. to 26 x 16 cm. ; 7 black and white proofs of woodcuts on Japanese paper, 25 x 16 cm. ; 1 black and white proof of woodcut on green paper, 10 x 12 cm.
10) Duino elegies
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Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure,
and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains
to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying.
-from "The First Elegy"
Over the last fifteen-years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book...
11) New poems
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"The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral window. Translator Joseph Cadora has created the definitive...
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