Duino Elegies: A New Translation (Bilingual Edition)

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is widely considered the most significant German-language lyric poet of the 20th century.

After decades of university teaching in Germany and the U.S., the focus of Mark S. Burrows' work explores the intersection of spirituality and the arts, mysticism and poetics. He travels the world lecturing and offering retreats and workshops. A winner of the Wytter Bynner Prize in Poetry and numerous nominations for a Pushcart, his own poems have been published in books and journals in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and India. As a translator of German into English, his long interest in Rilke includes translations of Prayers of a Young Poet (2013) and Sonnets to Orpheus (2024). Burrows has also coauthored four books of Meister Eckhart poems with Jon M. Sweeney since 2017, the most recent of which is Meister Eckhart's Book of Darkness and Light (2023).