by W. D. Snodgrass
New American Translations
Series
This collection includes little-known Eastern European poets
as well as celebrated poets, troubadours, and composers. In
his Selected Translations, W.D. Snodgrass offers us the imaginitive
power and the playful wisdom of poems, folk songs, fables, street
songs, drinking lyrics, ballads and art songs gleaned from more
than five-hundred years of Western tradition.
Slumbersong
by
Rainer Maria Rilke
When
I lose you, someday,
how
will you sleep without me
whispering
myself away
above
you like the linden tree?
Without
me waking to lay down
words,
as close as eyelids,
upon
your breasts, upon
your
limbs, upon your lips?
Without
my closing you to leave
you
alone with what is yours,
like
a garden with its sheaves
of
melissas and of anise-stars?
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 1-880238-60-8
Price: $13.50
Publishing Date: January 1998
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