Mark Doty sings the praises of Don Paterson’s new “versions” of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus. I can’t wait to read the book, but I’ll have to hang on for the paperback version. The price of hardbacks is crazy, considering the paperback will appear in (I guess) about 6 months time. I am trying not to give in.
“Don Paterson's new versions - his term, to distinguish the poems from more assiduously faithful renderings - of this legendary sequence… create a warm, far more earthbound Rilke. Paterson gives the sonnets, perhaps for the first time in English, a true sense of an inhabited skin, a pulsing body responding to the life of the senses.”
2 comments:
I've put it on my 'Dear Santa' list - we had one of the sonnets in Magma recently and it was excellent. Sometimes the hardback takes ages to appear...
Very impressed with your sunday sonnet - the sonnet itself and the fact you can be bothered to write one every Sunday.
Thanks, Mark.
I really would like my wife to get me clothes for Christmas, but maybe she'd get me this book too if I'm especially nice to her.
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