From Notebooks and Personal Papers by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by David Need David Calcutt of absence and presence

of absence and presence

There are elegies to the cineastes Abbas Kiarostami and Chantal Akerman

Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood

beautifully cadenced

From Notebooks and Personal Papers by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by David Need David Calcutt of absence and presenceRainer Maria Rilke (1875 1926) is recognized as one of the great poets of 20th century European modernism. From 1921 1926, he lived in southern Switzerland, in a region called the Valais. Following the completion of the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Rilke began to work in both French and German. A collection of French poems addressed to the landscape of Valais, Quatrains Valaisans, was published in 1926. In May of that same year, Rilke sent