Able Muse - german https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/700/700? en Imaginary Life History https://www.ablemuse.com/v28/poetry-translation/rainer-maria-rilke/imaginary-life-history? <p>First a childhood, limitless and free<br /> of goal and renouncing. O unconscious bliss.<br /> Suddenly limits, fear, school, drudgery,<br /> the fall into temptation and sharp loss.</p> <p>Defiance. Bent, the child becomes the bender,<br /> revenging on others what he suffered through.<br /> Loved and dreaded, savior, wrestler, winner<br /> and conqueror, inflicting blow on blow.</p> <p>And then alone in vastness, light, and cold.<br /> Yet deep within the person&rsquo;s grown-up state,<br /> a gasping for the first, the world of old.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v28/poetry-translation/rainer-maria-rilke/imaginary-life-history?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v28/poetry-translation/rainer-maria-rilke/imaginary-life-history?#comments Poetry Translation 2020/2021 able muse german imaginärer lebenslauf Imaginary Course of Life imaginary life history poem poetry translation rainer maria rilke susan mclean v28 Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:51:57 +0000 Alex Pepple 1929 at https://www.ablemuse.com Rainer Maria Rilke https://www.ablemuse.com/v28/bio/rainer-maria-rilke? <p>Rainer Maria Rilke (1875&nbsp;– 1926), born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, understood the power of words. At a lover&rsquo;s urging, he changed his name to Rainer, which he thought sounded more masculine. He is probably the best-known twentieth-century German-language poet, best known for his <em>Duino Elegies,</em> his <em>Sonnets to Orpheus,</em> and his <em>New Poems.</em> In the <em>Duino Elegies—</em>his most important work—and his other poems, Rilke combined knowledge of classical literature with a mystical sense of existence and religion.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v28/bio/rainer-maria-rilke?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v28/bio/rainer-maria-rilke?#comments Bios able muse author bio german imaginärer lebenslauf imaginary life history poem poetry rainer maria rilke susan mclean v28 winter 2020/2021 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 07:03:19 +0000 Alex Pepple 1891 at https://www.ablemuse.com New Spring https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/new-spring? <p>Our deep desires awaken<br /> and wither to a crust<br /> and bloom and wither once again&mdash;<br /> so it goes, till we are dust.</p> <p>I know this, and it troubles<br /> my every loving breath,<br /> my heart so bright and clever,<br /> it bleeds me half to death.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; Translated from the German of Heinrich Heine<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;by <a style="text-decoration:none" href="/v26/bio/terese-coe">Terese Coe</a></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/new-spring?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/new-spring?#comments Poetry Translation able muse author german heinrich heine neuer frühling new spring poem poems poetry poetry translation terese coe translation v26 winter 2018 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:51:41 +0000 Alex Pepple 1723 at https://www.ablemuse.com In the Dream https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/in-the-dream? <p>In the dream I saw a little man, peculiar,<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; who walked on stilts and was clearly stepping out<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; in a clean white linen shirt and woolen coat,<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; but on the inside, he was dripping with mire.</p> <p>Inside he was wretched, useless, lazy,<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; but his outer self could have been worthy and strong;<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; he talked about courage and carried on so long<br> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; I began to see he was obstinate—even crazy.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/in-the-dream?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/poetry-translation/heinrich-heine/in-the-dream?#comments Poetry Translation able muse author german heinrich heine im traum sah ich ein männchen klein und putzig in the dream poem poems poetry poetry translation terese coe translation v26 winter 2018 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:13:07 +0000 Alex Pepple 1722 at https://www.ablemuse.com Terese Coe https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/bio/terese-coe? <p align="justify">Terese Coe&rsquo;s poems and translations have appeared in <em>Able Muse, Agenda, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review</em>, the <em>Moth, New American Writing, New Writing Scotland, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Review, Stinging Fly, Threepenny Review</em>, and the <em>TLS</em>, among many other journals. Her collection <em>Shot Silk</em> was listed for the 2017 Poets Prize, and she has received grants from Giorno Poetry Systems and Vermont Studio Center. Copies of her poem &ldquo;More&rdquo; were heli-dropped across London as part of the 2012 Olympics Rain of Poems.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/bio/terese-coe?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/bio/terese-coe?#comments Bios ablemuse author bio german heinrich heine im traum sah ich ein männchen klein und putzig in the dream neuer frühling new spring poem poetry poetry translation terese coe translation v26 winter 2018 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:22:06 +0000 Alex Pepple 1721 at https://www.ablemuse.com Heinrich Heine https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/bio/heinrich-heine? <p align="justify">Heinrich Heine was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in either 1797 or 1799. In 1831 he took exile in France, where he often struggled financially despite irregular patronage from a millionaire uncle. With freedom of speech, he developed an international reputation for the lyricism, wordplay, irony, and excoriating satire of his poems, and was called the last of the Romantics. In 1841 he married Crescence Eugénie Mirat (&ldquo;Mathilde&rdquo;), who cared for him during eight years of paralysis; he wrote from bed until his death in 1856.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/bio/heinrich-heine?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v26/bio/heinrich-heine?#comments Bios able muse author bio german heinrich heine im traum sah ich ein männchen klein und putzig in the dream neuer frühling new spring poem poems poetry poetry translation terese coe translation v26 winter 2018 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:15:20 +0000 Alex Pepple 1720 at https://www.ablemuse.com Heinrich Heine https://www.ablemuse.com/v24/bio/heinrich-heine? <p>Heinrich Heine was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in either 1797 or 1799. In 1831 he took exile in France, where he often struggled financially despite irregular patronage from a millionaire uncle. With freedom of speech he developed an international reputation for the lyricism, wordplay, irony, and excoriating satire of his poems, and was called the last of the Romantics. In 1841 he married Crescence Eugénie Mirat (&ldquo;Mathilde&rdquo;), who cared for him during eight years of paralysis; he wrote from bed until his death in 1856.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v24/bio/heinrich-heine?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v24/bio/heinrich-heine?#comments Bios author bio german heinrich heine poem poems poetry poetry translation Sie saßen und tranken am Teetisch terese coe the tea translation v24 Tue, 02 Jan 2018 06:57:06 +0000 Alex Pepple 1560 at https://www.ablemuse.com Heinrich Heine https://www.ablemuse.com/v21/bio/heinrich-heine? <p>Heinrich was born in D&uuml;sseldorf, Germany in either 1797 or 1799. In 1831 he took exile in France, where he often struggled financially despite irregular patronage from a millionaire uncle. With freedom of speech he developed an international reputation for the lyricism, wordplay, irony, and excoriating satire of his poems, and was called the last of the Romantics. In 1841 he married Crescence Eug&eacute;nie Mirat (&ldquo;Mathilde&rdquo;), who cared for him during eight years of paralysis; he wrote from bed until his death in 1856.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v21/bio/heinrich-heine?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v21/bio/heinrich-heine?#comments Bios author bio german heinrich heine poem poems poetry poetry translation schattenküsse schattenliebe shadow kisses terese coe translation tu te moques v21 Mon, 20 Jun 2016 23:42:37 +0000 Alex Pepple 1401 at https://www.ablemuse.com Terese Coe https://www.ablemuse.com/v21/bio/terese-coe? <p>Terese Coe&rsquo;s poems and translations have appeared in <em>Able Muse, Alaska Quarterly Review,</em> the <em>Cincinnati Review, New American Writing, Ploughshares, Poetry, Threepenny Review, Agenda,</em> the <em>Moth, New Walk, New Writing Scotland, Poetry Review,</em> the <em>TLS,</em> the <em>Stinging Fly, </em>and many other publications and anthologies. Her poem &ldquo;More&rdquo; was heli-dropped across London in the 2012 London Olympics Rain of Poems, and her latest collection of poems, <em>Shot Silk,</em> was published by Kelsay Books.<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v21/bio/terese-coe?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v21/bio/terese-coe?#comments Bios author bio french german heinrich heine jeune ribaude Pierre de Ronsard poem poetry poetry translation schattenküsse schattenliebe shadow kisses terese coe translation tu te moques v21 you mock me Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:55:10 +0000 Alex Pepple 1399 at https://www.ablemuse.com Five Poems https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/nelly-sachs/five-poems? <p>I.<br /> <em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Wenn ich nur w&uuml;&szlig;te&rdquo;</em></p> <p>If only I knew,<br /> what your last look rested on.<br /> Was it a stone that had already drunk <br /> many last looks, until they fell in blindness<br /> on the blind?</p> <p>Or was it dirt,<br /> earth enough to fill a shoe,<br /> and already turned black<br /> from so many good-byes <br /> and from . . . <br /> . . . . . . . . . .</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/nelly-sachs/five-poems?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v17/poetry-translation/nelly-sachs/five-poems?#comments Poetry Translation five poems german nelly sachs poem poetry translation teresa iverson translation v17 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 01:54:07 +0000 Alex Pepple 1095 at https://www.ablemuse.com