That's really interesting Andrew
>
>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.)
I have my copies, but I do recommend it, especially to readers who either
already know of Bowering;s work & like it, or those interested in reading
one of the Canadian poets of the generation that came into publishing in
the 60s who followed the line of the serial poem among other aspects of the
Pound-William tradition. It is one of his finest works, even if he was not
as 'taken' by Rilke as many of the translators have been...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Greyhaired, I have not grown wiser,
unless to perceive absurdity
is wisdom. A powerless wisdom.
Denise Levertov
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