>There have been a few really interesting 'translations' of the Elegies
>lately, but I confess to also really liking George Bowering's
>'life-translation,' his 1984 _Kerrisdale Elegies_, in which he creates a
>poem out of his own life & Rilke's great poem. No angels, but friends, &,
>given Bowering's life-long engagement with the game, the acrobats become
>baseball players! It's a terrific sequence, but unless it somehow got to a
>library near you, very hard to find now...
Well, Douglas and others, it has surfaced in the second hand bookstores
over here. How strange. We have a small chain of stores called Elizabeth's
which sell second hand and remaindered books. Harry, who owns and runs it
(with his wife E.), goes overseas, mainly America, and buys up container
loads of remaindered books about once or twice a year. I get some
interesting buys out of this lot, titles that wouldn't make it to my shore
otherwise (Ben Bellitt ((spl?)), James Wright, Denise Levertov, etc). &
Kerrisdale Elegies was amongst them. He had lots of copies. I'll ask if
they have more if you wish ... It has been out for a while now, so they may
have sold 'em. (I also found a magazine called Conjunctions there, with an
interesting range of contributors in it.)
Regards -
Andrew
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