Be Earth Now – Rainer Maria Rilke recited by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows

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Emergence Magazine

Spirituality, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.7 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

As we approach the longest night of the year, we invite you to find a few moments of quiet to tune in to this re-broadcast of recitations from Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God. In his seminal collection of poems, the great twentieth-century poet explores the nature of—and his relationship to—God through divinely “received” prayers. Twenty-five years ago, Anita Barrows, an award-winning poet and translator, and Joanna Macy, a Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher, collaborated to translate this collection. On the album Be Earth Now, produced by Fletcher Tucker at Gnome Life Records, Anita and Joanna recite a selection of these poems. Through their potent recitations, they bring the spirit of Rilke’s words fully into our time and remind us of the ever-urgent call to love the world into being. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast. I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence
0:08.1	magazine, located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Mewalk people of present-day
0:14.7	Marin County. Each week, we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.
0:31.6	In celebration of National Poetry Month, we're featuring the work of one of our favorite poets with a selection
0:39.0	of recitations from a new recording of Rainer Maria Rilke's Book of Hours, Love Poems to God.
0:47.3	Nearly 25 years ago, Anita Barrow's, an award-winning poet and translator, and Joanna Macy, Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher,
0:57.9	collaborated to translate the seminal collection of poems, in which Rilka explores the relationship
1:03.6	to the divine.
1:05.7	In this special episode of the Emergence podcast, Anita and Joanna read a selection of these poems from the new album, Be Earth Now, from
1:15.7	Gnome Life Records, bringing us into the spirit of Rilke's words and reminding us of our
1:22.3	role in loving the world.
1:30.6	I learn the the world. I live my
1:32.3	life in wakening ringen.
1:35.6	I live my life in widening circles
1:39.1	that reach out across the world.
1:42.8	I may not complete this last one, but I give myself to it.
1:49.4	I circle around God, around the primordial tower.
1:56.2	I've been circling for thousands of years, and I still don't know. Am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song?
2:14.5	I love. I love my wanesens' dunkelstun. I love mynes' dunkelstun.
2:20.9	I love the dark hours of my being.
2:25.7	My mind deepens into them.
2:30.6	There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life already lived and held like a legend and understood.
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