Posted on 26/04/08
Timely, or time-tested?
To judge by their ages, most of the writers on the shortlists for this year's Griffin Poetry Prize look a tad geriatric. One is even deceased. César Vallejo, whose Complete Poetry is translated by 73-year-old Clayton Eshleman, died in 1938. John Ashbery (Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems) and Robin Blaser (The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser) are in their 80s. The youngest, Erin Moure, co-translator of Nicole Brossard's Notebook of Roses and Civilization, is, at 53, a mere juvenile.
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