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Five minutes later, senior Desmond Mitchell nearly latched onto a cross from classmate Adam Rousmaniere, but the pass skidded inches in front of Mitchell??s outstretched...
Like many, my introduction to the poet was through Stephen Mitchell??s celebrated 1989 translation of Rilke’s selected works. I know this collection intimately, and I’ve even committed a few of Mitchell??s translations to memory. I’ve also read Robert Bly’s 1981 translation, and David Young’s attempt at Rilke’s “Duino Elegies...
...first thing to notice about Snow’s volume is how thick it is. Though this is technically another “selected” Rilke, it is far more thorough than Mitchell??s or Bly’s. The sheer amount of translation here is both admirable and convenient; it is the most complete recent collection of Rilke’s works in English. This is the culmination of Snow’s several previously-published translations of Rilke’s individual volumes, revised and collected in this larger book...
...While Mitchell??s translations are looser and more creatively liberal, Snow’s have an interest in direct syntactical facsimile; with a more direct approach to the formulation of Rilke’s images. In “Going Blind,” a poem from “New Poems,” Rilke describes observing a woman who is ostensibly doing just that. The poem ends with a paradigmatic Rilke image—in observing her impediments, he suddenly perceives a flash of transcendent elegance. Mitchell writes, “and yet: as though, once...
While some of his teammates, including forward Andre Akpan and defender Kwaku Nyamekye, will continue their soccer careers after college, Mitchell??s health will abbreviate his future on the field...