Description: An accomplished poet's first and only sonnet sequence.
Review Quotes:
"An artful and sensitive translation of this most elusive of Rilke's poetrythe thing that Rilke made is once again alive to us, all of itYoung has subtractedthe most persistent problem with other translations: he does not let the music of the form haunt the poem. There is no rhetorical 'rounding-out, ' in either Pound's fine phrase, emotional slither. The reader feels that Young has successfully 'inhabited' the form, found a correlative language."--Stanley Plumly