tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12345339.post113338378003014856..comments2009-11-11T06:47:17.594-06:00Lyle Daggetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12345339.post-30749005830891565082007-01-06T10:37:00.000-06:002007-01-06T10:37:00.000-06:00Hey, great essay, enjoyed this very much--only wish I'd seen it sooner. Here's a lil Rexroth gem for you:<br /><br />"Creamy Breasts"<br />Fragrant with powder, moist with perspiration,<br />They are the pegs of a jade inlaid harp.<br />Aroused by spring, they are soft as cream<br />Under the fertilizing mist.<br />After my bath my perfumed lover <br />Holds them and plays with them <br />And they are cool as peonies and grapes.nostalgiphilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00014010710963536310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12345339.post-1135307590188947072005-12-22T21:13:00.000-06:002005-12-22T21:13:00.000-06:00Great post. Great links on your site too. It's Kenneth Rexroth's birthday today, and I was writing my emotive for his poetry on my blog, so I linked <BR/>your post up to it as a resource under <BR/>'Happy Birthday KENNETH REXROTH (part I).E.R. Carlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15207577851290353138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12345339.post-1134171721873755852005-12-09T17:42:00.000-06:002005-12-09T17:42:00.000-06:00Ruth, thanks for your comments. Stephen Mitchell is an interesting example to look at. His translations of Rilke stray noticeably at times from the originals, and not necessarily for any compelling reason. Although Rilke isn't one of my favorite poets, the translations of Rilke I like best are the somewhat older ones by W.D. Herter Norton. The Norton translations have had their detractors also, but to my ear they usually come very close to what Rilke's original German actually says.<BR/><BR/>With regard to Pound, I think often of a comment Robert Bly made in a essay many years back, in which he compared Pound's Cantos to an imperial city-state expanding rampantly out of control, grabbing and swallowing up everything in its path.Lyle Daggetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12345339.post-1134140193833988372005-12-09T08:56:00.000-06:002005-12-09T08:56:00.000-06:00lyle, this is a really interesting comment on rexroth, but, i think, even moreso on translation, which i first started to see as a salient intrustion to the poem after reading stephen mitchell's translations of rilke, or perhaps i should say, after reading mitchell and then trying, desperately, to read other translations of rilke that i could feel as moved by. i am not sure of how i feel about rexroth's meddlings, but i certainly understand everything you say about the captured essence of the work and how, especially, writers like pound forsaked that essence for their the benefit of their own poetic prowess. and in pound's case, also, i have always felt that the act of translation is for the most part entered into with an essentially colonizing spirit, a usurping of culture as opposed to a re-presentation of its contemporaneous nature. thanks for the article. i found it inspiring...ruth-ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11892034134489818540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12345339.post-1134005092653727682005-12-07T19:24:00.000-06:002005-12-07T19:24:00.000-06:00Haven't read much by him, I'll have to look him up. Thanks as always for the informative write up.jennihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15572881547671631396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12345339.post-1133494221893845372005-12-01T21:30:00.000-06:002005-12-01T21:30:00.000-06:00Thanks, Michelle.Lyle Daggetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10731915540520704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12345339.post-1133410718828983472005-11-30T22:18:00.000-06:002005-11-30T22:18:00.000-06:00That last one was lovely. Thanks for a great read Lyle.Michelle e ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11021195834319363185noreply@blogger.com