Kerrisdale Elegies

by George Bowering

It is extraordinary that one can take the measure of how radically cultural sensibilities can change throughout a century by a careful reading of only two texts--in this case Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies , written in the midst of the First World War, and George Bowering's brilliant response to Rilke's call, the Kerrisdale Elegies , composed in the midst of the Cold War. Rilke's poem begins and ends with a modernist appeal to the transcendent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889225907
• ISBN13: 9780889225909
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Talonbooks
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 8.7"