WHAT SPARKS POETRY:
J. MICHAEL MARTINEZ
ON RAINER MARIA RILKE'S
"[YOU WHO NEVER ARRIVED]" "Rilke’s unpublished missive to a distant beloved became an archetype for much of my sense of the poetic: an epistle (in)to the unknown fueled by a compassion that comprehends radical otherness as an aspect of the self exceeding the self." | 