Franz Xaver Kappus Author

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was one of the most acclaimed German-language poets of the twentieth century. Franz Xaver Kappus (1883–1966) was an Austrian military officer, journalist, and poet. Damion Searls is a prize-winning translator of fifty books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch. Liveright published his translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet in 2020.