Re: kafka and rilke

hi john,

the only reference to rilke that i know of is in that
letter to felice right after franz got back from the
munich reading of 'in the penal colony'. if you
indeed find any other references to rilke, i'd be very
grateful to know.

hey, nothing is wrong with the canon! thanks for
going to the trouble of responding. (though, no: tom
is good, tom is great to listen to, he's even fun to
watch on screen--but you can't induct him, or joni, or
even mr. zimmerman--though christopher ricks wants
to--into the canon. it's apples and oranges.)

kim

--- Omlor@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Kim,
>
> Yes, I remember reading Unseld a few years back.
> Thanks for the reminder
> about the Rilke letter. I cannot recall seeing
> anything in any of Franz's
> journals or letters about the man. I'll have to
> look again, just to be sure.
>
> Me? I'm a sap for the canon, I'm afraid. I'm a
> beat fan (especially
> Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and some Corso -- all for
> fun). Despite his being a bastard,
> I love the sound of Eliot at his best. It's
> magical. On the odder side, I
> like Blanchot and Jabes and yes, there are times
> when I can get lost in Ponge
> and Holderlin even. And, Blake and Keats and
> Shelley and Coleridge and company
> make me smile. I like Nikki Giovanni and Anne
> Sexton And Sylvia and several
> other more modern poets, and, to tell the truth, I
> have a great time with the
> Metaphysicals -- Donne still blows me away. Hell,
> every time I read Willie's
> Sonnets I find something new and amazing. I don't
> know. There are, in the
> end, too many to name. I can't let this paragraph
> end without Waits, though.
> He's there too -- "and no one's gone over to close
> his eyes / and there's a
> racing form in his pocket / circled Blue Boots in
> the third / and the cashier at
> the clothing store didn't say a word / as the siren
> tears the night in half /
> and someone lost his wallet / well it's surveillance
> of assailants if that's
> whatchawannacallit."
>
> Tears me up.
>
> But that's just me.
>
> All the best,
>
> --John
>
> PS: Thanks for the fascinating link!
>
>
>

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Received on Fri Jun 27 17:39:36 2003