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Actually, it is something between prose and poetry that Nabokov has used-he has retained Pushkin's iambic tetrameter-and the result is a recognizable and respectable cousinship. To a Russian raised on the original poem, Nabokov's version naturally lacks the music, but retains much of the rhythm, and at least does not (as do the often jingly previous translations) mock Pushkin's music by the clumsiness of its imitation. The sense is as nearly exact as translation permits...
...Christmastime 1914 he dashed off another poem...
...three judges, members of the Summer School faculty, will choose the winners on the basis of the general quality of a body of work. Each poem should be identified with the poet's pen name. A sealed envelope with the nom de plume on the outside and the poet's name and address inside should accompany the entry...
...What I love is near at hand, / Always, in earth and air," Theodore Roethke wrote in the title poem of this last collection. What he loved was growing things (no important U.S. poet since Thoreau has been less citified) and their textures. What he celebrated was his love for his young wife (now 38, she had been his student at Bennington College, where he taught English). And what he feared was death...
After she finished reading one poem (near the beginning), he said, "I didn't know she was going to be this good." A little later, she said to the audience, "See-you did get something for your money." That said it for me, and it wasn't even my money...