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Read along with the PDF available in the show-notes! After a hiatus, Bianca Stone is back to discuss Rilke. Taking a break from the Elegies to look back at Rilke’s first collection, A Book for the Hours of Prayer (Das Stundenbuch) from the Robert Bly translated “Selected Rilke.” In these poems there is a fierce commitment to the inward gaze, specifically to the darkness of self, the unconsciousness and all through the form of a devotional text. What does this mean in the radical exploration of self to address God and you and self in one sweeping gesture? There is enormous power that Rilke continuously comes back to in the world of going inward, to “disturb” the cities of oneself.
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