![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Articulate in white space and typography (mediums I love), what Rilke has beautifully rendered in word and thought. Including my designs is an attempt to guide your eyes as mine have been, and feel what I’ve felt. My hope is to expose these letters to others that maybe unaware, or others who have drifted from them for to long. This will be presented with my designs (so there will be tricky information included such as page numbers as the intention is for this to be printed), and then the accompanying text formatted in a more conventional reading format. I’m using the fantastic translation by Stephen Mitchell (I consider his the best), so I must thank him here– wherever he may be. It exists in public domain, so I had a go at it. So I’ve offered a twist: I’ve reinterpreted the book as almost concrete poetry/expressive typography. And then there is the fact that this is (predominately) a film blog. Then I relented: it’s not the most usual choice as a serial, I was thinking something like all the Dicken’s books that emerged in this form in the 1800s. Having us return to them every few days could feel like these are written to us and arriving via mail. It seemed like a natural fit, as it is a series of letters between Rilke and a 19 year old admirer, Franz Kappus. At first it seemed like just a curious idea I had: offer the Wonders community Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ in a serial form. ![]()
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