{"product_id":"books-rilke-s-book-of-hours-by-anita-barrows","title":"Rilke's Book of Hours","description":"\u003cb\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE PEN\/WEST TRANSLATION AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt were spontaneously received prayers. \u003ci\u003eRilke's Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is the invigorating vision of spiritual practice for the secular world, and a work that seems remarkably prescient today, one hundred years after it was written.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRilke's Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine--a reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary in which God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now \u003ci\u003eRilke's Book of Hours\u003c\/i\u003e tells us that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations rendered by Joanna Macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and Anita Barrows, a skilled poet, capture Rilke's spirit as no one has done before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480509571345,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781594481567.jpg?v=1777548429","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-rilke-s-book-of-hours-by-anita-barrows","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}