{"product_id":"9781630513580","title":"Rue Rilke","description":"Travelogue, literary autobiography, and journalistic exposé of the mores of capital punishment, \u003ci\u003eRue \u003cbr\u003e Rilke\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles its author's initiatory Rilke pilgrimage to France and Switzerland and-upon his return to America-his up-close involvement in death penalty politics. Immersed in the legal and human drama unfolding in Houston in the days leading up to an impending execution, the intimate linkage of love and death learned from Rilke aid him in his efforts to confront his country's sanction of lethal violence and make spiritual sense of his torn, too often black-and-white world. \u003cp\u003e\"Poetry matters and this book shows us why. The astonishing range of Rue Rilke-a travel diary, a meditation on Rilke, and a gripping account of efforts to oppose an unjust judicial execution-reveals the essense of what James Hillman calls soul-making. Poet, essayist, and passionate abolitionist, \u003cbr\u003e Daniel Polikoff gives us a book dedicated to the fiery poetry of life itself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSUSAN ROWLAND, author of \u003ci\u003eJung as a Writer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ecocritical Psyche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In his stunning early book \u003ci\u003eRue Rilke\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Joseph Polikoff offers us an impassioned and stylistically brilliant travelogue. With Rilke as his Virgil, he descends in quest of the feminine values he must labor to integrate into contemporary life. Never before has Rilke's mythic identification with the prodigal son been so personally authenticated, taken up with such imaginative immersion and inquisitive grace. A remarkable achievement.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUCE BOND, University of North Texas, author of \u003ci\u003eImmanent Distance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Polikoff's is a profound and spacious spiritual imagination. That passionate young man who wrote of his experiences one summer more than two decades ago was filled with the old wisdom of The \u003cbr\u003e Poet, the song-lines of landscape, and the prophetic voice that dares confront \"the fear that guts the spiritual house of this land.\" We need his voice now in our own deeply disturbed times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNAOMI RUTH LOWINSKY, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sister from Below\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Faust Woman \u003cbr\u003e Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, translator, and internationally recognized Rilke scholar \u003cb\u003eDaniel Joseph Polikoff\u003c\/b\u003e received his \u003cbr\u003e Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and his Diploma in Waldorf Education from \u003cbr\u003e Rudolf Steiner College. In addition to work in numerous literary journals, he has published five books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including \u003ci\u003eIn the Image of Orpheus: Rilke-A Soul \u003cbr\u003e History\u003c\/i\u003e and a bilingual translation of Rilke's \u003ci\u003eSonnets to Orpheus\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Polikoff\u003c\/b\u003e has taught literature in Waldorf high schools as well as courses in literature and depth psychology at Sonoma State University and the California Institute of Integral \u003cbr\u003e Studies. He has shared his passion for Rilke in a wide variety of venues in the United States and abroad, including annual meetings of the International Rilke and Jean Gebser Societies, the San \u003cbr\u003e Francisco Jung Institute, and the Napa Valley Writer's Conference. His webinars on \u003ci\u003eRilke: Poetry and Alchemy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRilke and the Hermetic Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e are available through the Asheville \u003cbr\u003e Jung Center. He resides with his wife Monika and family in the San Francisco Bay area. More information is available at danielpolikoff.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chiron Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054957084912,"sku":"9781630513580","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781630513580_p0.jpg?v=1763670442","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781630513580","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}