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“rilke outlines a sweet employment situation for poets: a kind of stewardship of creation. the poet names, and his speech vivacious material reality by pronouncing it. rilke’s theology reacts a story we already know: adam’s task of assigning the first names. the human is redeemed by the unique usefulness of his speech; language increases reality; matter is elevated by recognition.”

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