Re: haiku & rilke & seymour?

Kim writes:
<< [. . .] after finishing the elegies and sonnets in 1922, he wrote over
400 poems in french; in addition to another 200 in german.)

 i wonder if our jds knew this. >>

I had taken for granted that he did. It could be an illusion, of course,
but the French poems -- at least as it seems to me, based on old memory of
the others -- bear as much if not more affinity to Salinger, what with all
the children. "(L'Enfant à la Fenêtre)" comes to mind. As does,
overwhelmingly, "Les Fugitifs" which is to me quite reminiscent of Catcher:
a man and child standing at the side/edge of a dark road, perils, la nuit
enfanticide (child-killing night), the older speaking only of the dangers
and the child only caring to hear a song.

-robbie
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Received on Mon Jun 23 15:45:24 2003