The Dark Interval: letters on loss, grief and transformation by Rainer Maria Rilke

Anyone drawn to the transcendent beauty of Rilke’s poetry and prose will appreciate this collection of newly-translated letters pondering the realities of loss and death. Rilke offers his very personal and exquisitely sensitive condolences to friends and correspondents while sharing extraordinary insights into a reality “where life and death penetrate each other and incessantly mix” and where the Angel of his affirmations “turns a radiant face toward death.”