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Baron Aardvark's avatar

This is outstanding! Makes me want to go give Rilke another try—he’s never been one of my faves, but I suspect that’s my fault, not his.

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Dalboz's avatar

Excellent work S and E! Also there's real music in the recording!

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Mari, the Happy Wanderer's avatar

That was beautiful--the translation and the reading. I listened to the original as I followed along with your translation. That was so lovely, Sarah, and I needed this today. Thank you.

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Michael Nagy's avatar

Glorious! Rilke's reputation is too great for him not to be. Thanks for doing the pushups for me, so I can appreciate him too! For mitgefuehlten, did you consider 'sympathetic'? 'sympathetic spring sunrise'? I'm neither a translator nor a poetry reader, but I am a prolific kibbutzer, so I'm talking way out of school here.

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Lily's avatar

This is lovely!

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Erin E.'s avatar

Beautiful. And the recording is stunning.

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Kathleen McCook's avatar

Thank you for the beautiful reading, too.

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