Ankuendigungen/Announcements for Kloenschnack, Oral History, Gedichtsseminar, Petition, Film March 8:International Women's Day, Nelly Sachs, R. M. Rilke,
Marion Gerlind
This workshop and dramatic poetry reading in celebration of the life and poetry of Nelly Sachs, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The workshop is held at the Albert M. Bender Room at the Green Library, Stanford University. RSVP is required by March 5 at |
From: Rose Black <moo...@ix.netcom.com>Date: March 6, 2012 12:30:25 PM PSTTo: Marion Gerlind <mar...@gerlindinstitute.org>Subject: Re: Rilke and the Old Testament, Monday, March 12, Temple Sinai, OaklandHello Marion!--
Thank you for spreading the word...
Rose
RILKE AND THE OLD TESTAMENT
Daniel Polikoff
Monday, March 12, 2012 7:30 PM
Temple Sinai
2808 Summit Street
Oakland, CA 94609
Please Use Webster Street Entrance
Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the most widely read and well loved of poets. He may also be considered one of the most religious, though after his own unique fashion.
Raised Catholic, the young poet reacted against—not only the ostentatious piety of his mother—but against the way the institutionalized Catholic faith impeded his own direct relation to the Godhead. Rilke's quest for a more unmediated relationship to God led him to draw deeply from the well of the Old Testament stories that so effectively convey a sense of God's immediate presence. Leaning on my new book Rilke: A Soul History, I'll explore Rilke's dialogue with the Divine through poems (many in my own translation) and stories that feature the poet's religious quest and, in particular, his connection with the Old Testament. We may not escape some compelling questions concerning the relationship between art, psychology, and religion.
Contact Rose Black: 510-633-1888 <moo...@ix.netcom.com> for additional information.
Poet and scholar Daniel Polikoff received his PhD in comparative Literature from Cornell University and his Diploma in Waldorf Education from Rudolf Steiner college. He has taught literature in Waldorf high schools as well as teacher training programs and offered seminars on Rilke in the San Francisco Bay area for many years. In addition to work in numerous literary journals and anthologies, he has published two collections of poetry (Dragon Ship and The Hands of Stars) as well as a book-length translation of a dramatic version of the Grail legend (Parzival/Gawain: Two Plays) and Rilke—A Soul History. He currently lives in Mill Valley.