Visions of Christ: A Posthumous Cycle of Poems

Edited, with an introduction by Siegfried Mandel. Poems translated by Aaron Kramer.

Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets.

His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.