Join Renée Price, Director, and Scott Gutterman, Deputy Director of Neue Galerie New York for a bilingual poetry reading of Rainer Maria Rilke's "First Elegy" of the 𝘋𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘰 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴. The poet's language is passionate and sweeping, and we present it in the original German and in translation so that listeners may experience the sound of this great poem. The 𝘋𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘰 𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 have an intense spiritual quality, right from the first sentence, which is a kind of agonized appeal to the heavens: “Who, if I cried, would hear me...”