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

In our final podcast of the year, a special selection of Rainer
Maria Rilke’s poetry offers nourishment for heart and spirit.
Twenty-five years ago, Buddhist scholar and eco-philosopher Joanna
Macy collaborated with award-winning poet Anita Burrows to
translate Rilke’s seminal collection of poetry, The Book of Hours:
Love Poems to God, which explores the nature of God through
divinely received prayers. In this reading, excerpted from the
album Be Earth Now, produced by Fletcher Tucker at Gnome Life
Records, Joanna and Anita recite some of these poems, reminding us
of the ever-urgent call to love the world into being. Sign up for
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