{"product_id":"9781908376947","title":"Pure Contradiction: Selected Poems","description":"Bilingual Edition. Awarded the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2013 for translation from German.In his powerful new translation, skilfully shaped into current English, Ian Crockatt succeeds in catching Rilke's blend of crafted sensuality and inward-focused spiritual searching, while his comprehensive introduction and notes to this selection are both informative and enlightening.Rainer Maria Rilke was described by another great poet, Maria Tsvetaeva as 'not a poet, but the embodiment of poetry'. His work spans the divide between Europe's turn-of-the-century decadence and its post First World War revolutionary modernism, always struggling to develop, to seek and reach beyond itself.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arc Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141098094832,"sku":"9781908376947","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908376947_p0.jpg?v=1763622864","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908376947","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}