Fatal Birds of the Soul: A Cycle of Poems

by Brett Rutherford

The work on these poems started in 1976, an attempt to translate, adapt, and expand upon the first two of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies. The project was abandoned, the sketches only rediscovered in late 2019. In April 2020, I decided to complete the project, revising and expanding the original sketches and making them into a connected cycle of 21 poems."This cycle is in no way an explication of Rilke, and the German poet would doubtless be horrified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B089M42ZSB
• ISBN13: 9798650985211
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"