In this episode, Anita Barrows and I discuss Rilke's perception of God, his connection with darkness and read various poems by both Rilke and Anita. Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1966. She holds Master’s degrees in English and Italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology. Her translations of poetry, plays, fiction and non-fiction from the French, German and Italian have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently, she has collaborated with Joanna Macy on translations of three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke. Six volumes of her poetry have been published, including a previous book, Exile, by The Aldrich Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Tikkun, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Bark, and Bridges. Barrows lives in Berkeley, where she is a professor at The Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice. She is a mother and a grandmother and lives with a menagerie of dogs, cats, and birds.

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