Word: rainer
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...think you are capable of living without writing," said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, "do not write." He didn't live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have understood her right away. Those portraits of sideshow performers and weeping children, her matter-of-fact nudists and naked transvestites, her pictures of "them," her pictures of "us"--something of consequence is at stake here, and it's not just art. Arbus worked at the point where the voyeuristic and the sacramental converge. She lies in wait for your first misstep in her direction...
...MUSIC | Rainer Maria...
With their name taken from the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, these Wisconsin indie rockers first scored with their critically acclaimed first album “Past Worn Searching.” 8 p.m. $12; 18+. The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Massachusetts...
...introduction to Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation From People Who Know a Thing or Two, James L. Harmon muses upon the birth of his brainchild, which he generously likens to an updated version of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet. Harmon wonders, “What would Rilke say in those years leading up to the twenty-first century, to an angry, cynical, ironic, black-clad, café-dwelling, cigarette-puffing, wannabe-artist poseur like me? I wanted to find...
...series modeled on Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet (Alan Dershowitz has penned a Letters to a Young Lawyer) Hitchens dispenses advice on how to batter away at the prevailing hypocrisies of our day by living in a state—or rather, an activity—of principled opposition. Luckily, Hitchens has at least enough of a sense of humor to appreciate the condescending silliness that encircles this idea. “I myself hope to live long enough to graduate, from being a ‘bad boy?...