On Rhyming
Ran across this in Joseph Brodsky's essay on Marina Tsvetaeva, "Footnote to a Poem." It's from Marina 's poem on the death of Rilke: " Novogodnee" ("New Year's Greetings"). Rainer, are you pleased with new rhymes? For, properly interpreting the word "Rhyme," what--if not a whole row of new Rhymes--is Death? *** Had to have something for the inaugural entry. This is as good as it gets.