You Are the Future

Following Rilkes advice to live the questions,this book invites us to draw upon his startling insights and often unconventional wisdom to see ourselves as ripening, unfolding, and always becoming.This is a book to savor, soaking up the rewards of stories, insights, and provocations about the passage of our lives. Sally Gillespie,author ofClimate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining our World and OurselvesYou Are the Future beckons us to discover a wise way to live a life in thecompany of self and others. Pdraig Tuama,poet, peace activist, and host of On BeingsPoetry Unbound Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry has inspired readers for more than a century, and never more so than now. His rare spiritual vision speaks uniquelyin a time when many are seeking freedom of thought and a more wholistic way of living.Written by two award-winning writers who have journeyed deeply with Rilke, this book invites readerswith Rilketo live the deep questions facing us in our day, embracing the poets refusal to reach for simplistic answers. Through the originality and insight of their writing, Burrows and Dowrick honor readers own experiences and, in conversation with Rilke, invite them to examine their lives and desire the change, as the poet put it. In so doing, they bring sublime poetry into the heart of daily life, where the gifts it carries are most needed. All translations are byMark S. Burrows, a widely respected Rilke scholar and translator.