RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is considered one of the German language's greatest twentieth-century poets. Among other works, he wrote Duino Elegies, The Sonnets to Orpheus, and the novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Bilingual editions of Rilke's The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God, Duino Elegies, and New Poems are published by Northwestern University Press.
ANNEMARIE S. KIDDER is a professor at the Ecumenical Theological Seminary in The Mystical Way in Everyday Life (2010), a collection of spiritual writings by Karl Rahner; Pictures of God (2005), an anthology of Rilke's religious poetry; and Rilke's The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God (Northwestern, 2002).
