{"product_id":"rilkes-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god","title":"Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God","description":"A FINALIST FOR THE PEN\/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD\n\nThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.\n\nWhile visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. Rilke's Book of Hours is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written.\n\nRilke's Book of Hours shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine--a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now Rilke's Book of Hours tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations rendered by Joanna Macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and Anita Barrows, a skilled poet, capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1594481563\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1594481563.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Barrows, Anita\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43675853127741,"sku":"BVV.1594481563.G","price":6.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1594481563-0.jpg?v=1790111537","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/rilkes-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}