A New Reading of Rilke's "Elegies: Affirming the Unity of 'life-AND-death'" by Dr. John Mood

The Edwin Mellen Press is pleased to announce the publication of A New Reading of Rilke's "Elegies: Affirming the Unity of "life-AND-death" by Dr. John Mood. While meeting Mellen's usual high standards of a significant contribution to scholarship, this book, unlike many of Mellen's publications, is also accessible to the general reader of fine poetry in translation. Such readers will find this book both intellectually stimulating and enjoyable. Indeed, it could easily serve as an introduction to Rilke's poetry. It is the long awaited follow-up to Mood's Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties (Norton, 1975, 2004), which has been in print for 34 years now and still going strong; it is indeed the second largest selling Rilke book in the English speaking world. More details of Mood's new book are available at www.mellenpress.com.