hello! do you have a preferred translator of rilke by any chance? (i dusted off my rusty german to read the original of the "du musst dein leben ändern" poem and am in agreement with your tags on the post...)
I haven’t found one, and actually haven’t read much of him besides the Archaic Torso, though I’d like to - but my German is also super rusty & I think he’s hard (which is why I think people have had trouble translating him - the line that’s translated as “where procreation flared,” which phrase I hate is, really hard to render into poetic English).
So, I open this to my followers - any suggestions? Favorite translations?
ETA: I would not recommend Len Krisak's, which twisted English syntax really hard for rhyme's sake.