RILKE: Death Experience / Todeserfahrung, read & tr. by CLIFF CREGO

from intro IMAGES FROM THE PERIPHERY OF TIME Texts http://bit.ly/2gX53Si ... How different is the language of Death Experience. In this little-known masterpiece, we find Rilke using with complete confidence an imagery and tone which is very close to Shakespeare and yet very unlike the other poems of the collection. In an era in which we are all at least outwardly conditioned by a mechanistic science to time as measured by the clock and matter devoid of all spirit, Rilke's moving closing lines: "...but your far away, removed out of our performance existence, sometimes overcomes us, as an awareness descending upon us of this very reality, so that for a while we play Life rapturously, not thinking of any applause." seem to take us back, like high mountains and glaciers sometimes do, to a place where for a brief moment we stand above and beyond the movement of beginning and ending itself. POSTER #RILKE Death Experience http://bit.ly/2gWPbgt pdf http://bit.ly/2gWQJqw MUSIC coda, fragment from PHAROS.... IMAGE: Intense Glacier melt, after a fall storm, the Alps. What we are seeing here is the death of great glacier....