A review by libellum_aphrodite
Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by John J.L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke

2.0

This was way more "considerations" than I was hoping for and not enough "translations." I also found the selection of poems a bit odd - at various points, Mood pulled single liners and generally seemed to pull snippets of poems that discussed love out of the context of a fuller work so meaning was lost. As a result, it was difficult for me to get into the poetry that was there, and my poetic flow kept being disrupted by boring reflections by the editor. I found his commentary distracted from rather than enhanced Rilke's work.