Websites
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Here's Rilke's profile at Poets.org.
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…and here's his extensive bio at The Poetry Foundation.
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In case you're wondering who Rilke hung with and who he wrote about, here's a cool collection of those connections at biography.com.
Video
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This film is watching you—creepy, but cool.
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Care to study a torso? This video's for you.
Audio
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon offers his take on Rilke's poem.
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And now, in German! In case you were wondering what it would sound like in the original.
Images
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We're not totally sure which torso of Apollo Rilke was looking at in the Louvre, but a lot of readers speculate that it's this one.
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Here's what the young Rilke looked like—unlike the statue, including his legendary head and admittedly somewhat protuberant eye-apples.
Articles and Interviews
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Here's an awesome interview with poet Mark Doty about the poem, courtesy of Poets.org.
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Ever wonder what's so important about different translations? Here's a cool article from The Guardian about two different translations of the poem, by the same translator.
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Here's another take on translating Rilke (and the untranslatable) from Jacket magazine.
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In celebration of Edward Snow's translations of Rilke that came out in 2009, the Wall Street Journal gave this brief profile of Rilke for American readers.
Books
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Here's a book the Rilke's perhaps best known for—philosophical explorations of life, addressed to a potential poet.
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This well-known collection was penned by Rilke in a seaside castle.