"Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship.—Fred Volkmer, New York Sun

He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siècle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that spans thirty years and shifting boundaries: as lovers, as mentor and protégé, and as deep personal and literary allies.

Edward Snow is an award-winning translator of the poetry and prose of Rilke. Michael Winkler has written extensively on modern poetry and fiction. Both are professors at Rice University and live in Houston, Texas.

Publisher: W. W. Norton
Distributor: W. W. Norton
Publication Date: 06-30-2008
Pages: 462
Measurements: 8in X 6in