New Poems
Two volumes of what Rilke called thing-poems, each fastening on one object or figure until it gives something up - a caged panther whose gaze the bars have worn out, a headless archaic torso that looks back, a carousel, a flamingo, Eurydice walking up out of the dead and recognising no one. The method came from Rodin, whose secretary Rilke had been in Paris, and from Baudelaire, whose poem on a carcass he named as the point at which art stopped choosing agreeable subjects. Nothing here is confessed; the poem is made out of looking.
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Lineage
- influenced by ↑ The Flowers of Evil
Attributes
Plot structure
Symbol / motif
Conflict
Culture / tradition
Closest analogues
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