Kerrisdale Elegies Author:George Bowering "The Kerrisdale Elegies" is a compelling illustration of Pound's dictum - to 'make it new.' Williams' poetics too, to write 'no ideas but in things' so thoroughly infuses Bowering's long poem, that while it is an exact equivalent to Rilke's "Duino Elegies" - separated as they are by three generations of one of the most tumultuous centuries in hu... more »man history - it is not a translation, but a living, vibrant transformation of the work.In the intertextuality of these, great masterworks is found the birth of postmodern writing that is self-aware, where the other is discovered in the process of the writer writing, and is not a referent, neither secular nor divine, outside of the text itself, and therefore ultimately estranged from both the writer and the reader.« less